Canopus=كانوبوس

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Canopus=كانوبوس

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

Canopus

bright southern star, 1550s, ultimately from Greek Kanopos, Kanobos perhaps from Egyptian Kahi Nub "golden earth." The association with "weight" found in the name of the star in some northern tongues may reflect the fact that it never rises far above the horizon in those latitudes. Also the name of a town in ancient lower Egypt (famous for its temple of Serapis), hence canopic jar, which often held the entrails of embalmed bodies.

WIKIPEDIA

Canopus (/kəˈnoʊpəs/; α Car, α Carinae, Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina and Argo Navis, and the second brightest star in the night-time sky, after Sirius. Canopus's visual magnitude is −0.72, and it has an absolute magnitude of −5.53.

One of the least famous of the brightest stars, Canopus was not visible to the Ancient Greeks and Romans; it was, however, visible to the Ancient Egyptians.[5] It is also referred to by its Arabic name: سهيل (Suhayl), given by Islamic scientists in the 7th Century CE.

WICTIONARY

Etymology

From Latin Canōpus, from Ancient Greek Κάνωπος (“Kanopos”)

Proper noun

Canopus

1. (astronomy) A yellowish-white supergiant star in the constellation Carina; Alpha (α) Carinae. It is the second brightest star in the night sky.
2. (Greek mythology) The pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad.
3. An ancient city in northern Egypt, known for extravagance.