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mirach

/ˈmaɪræk/

mirach noun: the abdominal wall.

Noun

mirach (plural mirachs)

  1. (obsolete) The abdominal wall.
    • 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.”1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section...

Proper noun capitalized: Mirach

Mirach

  1. 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.
    • [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....1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 36
    Synonyms:
    β Andromedae, β And, Beta Andromedae

Synonyms of mirach

Forms of mirach

pluralmirachs
alternative formmyrach

Origin of mirach

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

Perhaps a corruption of Arabic مِئْزَر (miʔzar).

Questions about mirach

What does mirach mean?
Mirach means the abdominal wall.
What part of speech is mirach?
Mirach can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mirach?
Mirach is pronounced /ˈmaɪræk/.
What is the plural of mirach?
The plural of mirach is mirachs.

Words near mirach in the dictionary

  1. mirable
  2. mirabolan
  3. mirabolans
  4. mirabolic
  5. Mirac
  6. mirach
  7. mirachs
  8. miracidia
  9. miracidial
  10. miracidium
  11. mirack

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