Vela

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vela"

English

Etymology

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin vēla (“sails of a ship”), plural of vēlum. Doublet of veil.

Proper noun

Vela

1. (astronomy) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the sails of a ship. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

Derived terms

• Velorum

Translations

constellation

• Afrikaans: Seile
• Arabic: الشراع
• Armenian: Առագաստ (Aṙagast)
• Azerbaijani: Yelkən
• Bashkir: Елкәндәр (Yelkəndər)
• Belarusian: Ветразі (Vjetrazi)
• Bengali: ভেলা মণ্ডল (bhela monḍol)
• Breton: Gouelioù
• Bulgarian: Корабни платна (Korabni platna)
• Burmese: ဗီလာ (bila)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 船帆座 (syun⁴ faan⁴ zo⁶)

  Eastern Min: Sùng-pùng-cô̤

  Hakka: Sòn-fàm-chho

  Mandarin: 船帆座 (zh) (Chuánfānzuò)

• Corsican: Vele
• Czech: Plachty (cs)
• Danish: Sejlet
• Esperanto: Velaro
• Estonian: Purjed
• Finnish: Purje (fi)
• French: Voiles (fr) m pl
• Galician: Vela (gl)
• Georgian: იალქნების (ialknebis)
• German: Segel des Schiffs n
• Greek: Ιστία (el) (Istía)
• Hebrew: מפרש (he)
• Hindi: पाल (hi) (pāl)
• Hungarian: Vitorla (hu)
• Irish: na Seolta m pl
• Italian: Vele f pl
• Japanese: ほ座 (ja)
• Latvian: Buras
• Lithuanian: Burės
• Macedonian: Едро (Edro)
• Malay: Layar
• Malayalam: കപ്പൽപ്പായ (kappalppāya)
• Norwegian: Seilet

  Nynorsk: Seglet

• Persian: بادبان (fa) (bâdbân)
• Polish: Żagiel (pl) m
• Romanian: Velele
• Russian: Паруса (Parusa)
• Slovak: Plachty
• Spanish: Vela (es) f
• Swahili: Tanga
• Swedish: Seglet (sv)
• Tamil: வேலா (vēlā)
• Thai: กลุ่มดาวใบเรือ
• Ukrainian: Вітри́ла (Vitrýla)
• Urdu: بادبان
• Uzbek: Yelkanlar
• Vietnamese: Thuyền Phàm
• Yakut: Парустар (Parustar)

See also

• Argo
• Argo Navis
• Carina
• Puppis
• Pyxis

Anagrams

• Leva, Vale, Veal, avel, eval, lave, leva, vale, veal

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from the pre-Roman name Vela, a borrowing from Basque bela vela (“raven”), or more likely from the noun vela (“sail”). Also from placenames in Spain that derive from the other sense of vela (“guard, vigil”).

Proper noun

Vela ?

1. Vela (constellation)
2. a surname