البُطَيْنُ

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البُطَيْنُ One of the Mansions of the Moon; namely, the Second; three small stars [e and p and n], disposed in the form of an equilateral triangle, as though they were three stones whereon a cooking-pot is placed, and forming the belly of the Ram; the appellation being made a diminutive because the Ram consists of many stars in the form of a ram; [so I here render حَمَل though it properly signifies a lamb;] the شَزَطَانِ being its two horns; and the بُطَيْن, its belly; [or, accord. to our configuration of Aries, the rump;] and the ثُرَيَّا, its rump, or tail; three obscure stars, forming the points of a triangle, in the belly of the Ram, between the شَرَطَانِ and the ثُرَيَّا; the three stars of which two are on the tail and one on the thigh of the Ram, forming an equilateral triangle. [See مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ, in art. نزل.] The Arabs assert that it has no نَوْء [here meaning effect upon the weather], except wind.

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