المِرْزَمُ
is a name of The right star [app.
γ, i. e. Bellatrix,] in the left arm ofالجَبَّار [or Orion]. is called مَنْكِبُ الجَوْزَآءِ and يَدُ الجَوْزَآءِ; and then he mentions that in the left arm, as being called المرزم: whence it seems that Golius was misled by the omission of some words in a copy of the work of Kzw.]) And المِرْزَمَانِ, also called مِرْزَمَا الشِّعْرَيَيْنِ, is the name of Two stars [of which one is commonly known as B of Canis Major, and the other is app. B of Canis Minor, though Golius says, on the authority of Ulugh Beg, that the former is in the right hind leg of Canis Major,] with theشِعْرَيَانِ [by which latter appellation are meant Sirius and Procyon], or one of which is in [or by] الشِّعْرَى [commonly so called, i. e. Sirius,] and the other is inالذِّرَاع [by which is meant الذِّرَاع المَقْبُوضَة, i. e. the asterism consisting of a and B of Canis Minor]; or one of them isالذراع المقبوضة [mentioned above and the other isالشِّعْرَى commonly so called]: thus says Ibn-Kunáseh: both are of the stars of rain: and sometimes the sing. appellation (المِرْزَمُ) is used [app. as applied to Sirius, or to Bellatrix, or perhaps to B of Canis Minor]. نَوْءُ المِرْزَمِ [means The auroral setting of some one of the stars above mentioned; for it] is so termed because of its intense cold. السَّمَاكُ المِرْزَمُ is another name for السِّمَاكُ الرَّامِحُ [The star Arcturus]. (Az and TA in art. رمح. [This star neither sets nor rises aurorally in the cold season, nor is it one of the Mansions of the Moon; but it rises aurorally during “ the first of the rains, ” the autumnal rain, called الوَسْمِىّ.]) 2أُمُّ مِرْزَمٍThe north wind: or the cold north wind: from رَزَامَةُ النَّاقَةِ meaning “ the [gentle] yearning cry of the she-camel: ” or it signifies, or signifies also, the wind: thus expl. by ISd without any restriction.
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