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Sirius

UK/ˈsɪɹi.əs/

Sirius proper noun: a telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.

Proper noun

Sirius

  1. A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
  2. (specifically) The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.
    Synonyms:
    Alpha Canis Majoris, Blazing Star, Canicula, Shira, Sopdet, Sothis, the Dog Star, α Canis Majoris, α CMa

Sirius meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Arabic

Sirius in Hindi

Translations
व्याध तारा vyādh tārā

Sirius in Tamil

சிரியஸ்

Sirius in Bengali

Translations
লুব্ধক lubdhok

Sirius in Arabic

Translations
اَلشِّعْرَى aš-šiʕrā, الشِّعْرَى الْيَمَانِيَّة aš-šiʕrā l-yamāniyya
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Sirius in Malay
Bintang Anjing, Sirius
Sirius in Indonesian
Sirius
Sirius in Persian
تیشتر tištar, تیر tir, شباهنگ šabâhang
Sirius in Thai
ดาวซิริอุส
Sirius in Vietnamese
Thiên Lang, Sirius

Synonyms of Sirius

All synonyms of Sirius

Origin of Sirius

From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).

Words formed from Sirius

Questions about Sirius

What does Sirius mean?
Sirius means a telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
What is Sirius in Hindi?
Sirius in Hindi is व्याध तारा (vyādh tārā). See Sirius meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Sirius?
Sirius is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Sirius?
Sirius is pronounced /ˈsɪɹi.əs/ (UK).

Words near Sirius in the dictionary

  1. sirisa
  2. sirisas
  3. sirissa
  4. sirissas
  5. Siriu
  6. Sirius
  7. sirji
  8. sirjis
  9. Sirk
  10. sirkar
  11. sirkars

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Sirius (page history and authors); sirius (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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