# Warida

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'''Warida''' or '''Al Warida''' is an [asterism](/source/Asterism_(astronomy)) of the Arabs. In the star catalogue of [Al Achsasi al Mouakket](/source/Al_Achsasi_al_Mouakket), four stars are mentioned as belonging to it: [Gamma Sagittarii](/source/Gamma_Sagittarii), [Delta Sagittarii](/source/Delta_Sagittarii), [Epsilon Sagittarii](/source/Epsilon_Sagittarii) and [Eta Sagittarii](/source/Eta_Sagittarii).
The name is short for Arabic النعامة الواردة ''Al Naʽāma al Wārida'', meaning "the [ostrich](/source/ostrich) going down to the water". This ostrich was thought of as going down to the river (the Milky Way) to drink, and another ostrich (σ, φ, τ, and ζ Sagittarii, ''al Sadira'') was thought of as coming back up.<ref name=knobel/>

==References==
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<ref name=knobel>{{cite journal
 | last=Knobel | first=E. B.
 | title=On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calendarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket
 | journal=[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society](/source/Monthly_Notices_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society)
 | volume=55 | issue=8
 | page=435 |date=June 1895
 | bibcode=1895MNRAS..55..429K | doi=10.1093/mnras/55.8.429| doi-access=free}}</ref>

</references>

Category:Sagittarius (constellation)
Category:Asterisms (astronomy)

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