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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic بَيْت الْجَوْزَاء (bayt al-jawzāʔ), confused with يَد الْجَوْزَاء (yad al-jawzāʔ).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bételgeuse f
- Betelgeuse (supergiant)
Further reading
- Devic, Louis Marcel (1876) Dictionnaire étymologique des mots français d'origine orientale: arabe, persan, turc, hébreu, malais (in French), Hachette, page 67