Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mirach

/ˈmaɪræk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mirach
IPA: /ˈmaɪræk/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The abdominal wall.

Obsolete

name

A red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star marking the waist or girdle of the chained woman in the northern constellation of Andromeda.

Example Sentences

"Gordonius[…]confirms as much, putting the “matter of melancholy sometimes in the stomach, liver, heart, brain, spleen, myrach, hypochondries, whenas the melancholy humour resides there, or the liver is not well cleansed from melancholy blood.”"
"[Mirach was described in the Alfonsine Tables of 1521 as super mirat, from which has been derived its present title, as well as the occasional forms Mirac, Merach, Mirar, Mirath, Mirax, etc.; mirat probably coming from the 1515 Almagest's super mizar, the Arabic mi'zar, a girdle or waist-cloth. Scaliger, the great critical scholar of the 15th century, adopted this Mizar as a title, and Riccioli followed him in its use, thus confounding the star with ζ Ursae Majoris.]"

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mirac, mirach, from Arabic مَرَقّ (maraqq, “delicate and sensible part of the venter”), from رَقَّ (raqqa, “to be soft”).

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: mirac, مَرَقّ, ر ق ق, مِئْزَر

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

mirachs (plural) myrach (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

مِسْرَاق

Synonyms

β Andromedae β And Beta Andromedae

Questions

How do you pronounce mirach?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmaɪræk/.
What does mirach mean?: The abdominal wall.
Where does mirach come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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