Vela

Etymology
Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From, plural of. .

Proper noun

 * 1)  A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the sails of a ship. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Seile
 * Arabic: الشراع
 * Armenian: Առագաստ
 * Azerbaijani: Yelkən
 * Bashkir: Елкәндәр
 * Belarusian: Ветразі
 * Bengali: ভেলা মণ্ডল
 * Breton: Gouelioù
 * Bulgarian: Корабни платна
 * Burmese: ဗီလာ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 船帆座
 * Eastern Min: Sùng-pùng-cô̤
 * Hakka: Sòn-fàm-chho
 * Mandarin:
 * Corsican: Vele
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Sejlet
 * Esperanto: Velaro
 * Estonian: Purjed
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: იალქნების
 * German: Segel des Schiffs
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Seolta
 * Italian: Vele
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: Buras
 * Lithuanian: Burės
 * Macedonian: Едро
 * Malay: Layar
 * Malayalam: കപ്പൽപ്പായ
 * Norwegian: Seilet
 * Nynorsk: Seglet
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: Velele
 * Russian: Паруса
 * Slovak: Plachty
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Tanga
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: வேலா
 * Thai: กลุ่มดาวใบเรือ
 * Ukrainian: Вітри́ла
 * Urdu: بادبان
 * Uzbek: Yelkanlar
 * Vietnamese: Thuyền Phàm
 * Yakut: Парустар

Etymology
Possibly from the pre-Roman name, a borrowing from , or more likely from the noun. Also from placenames in Spain that derive from the other sense of.

Proper noun

 * 1)  constellation