Talk:Suhail (disambiguation)

Anyone know what 'Muhlif' means? Rothorpe 21:16, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Suhail is an Arabic term [...] used to refer to bright stars.

By whom? By astronomers? By Arabs? By Arab astronomers? &mdash; 217.46.147.13 (talk) 09:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Certainly by astronomers, but I take your point and will remove the sentence, as it is covered later on - Rothorpe (talk) 18:13, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

suhail is also a good name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.94.184.126 (talk) 09:35, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * al-muhlif means the oath-swearer. Not that I know any Arabic, but there are fairly reliable references for this.  I'm taking out the sentence that says Suhail means brightest star.  It appears to mean nothing of the sort, although it does now have connotations such as glorious.  If anything, Suhail originally appears to derive from meaning level or even, perhaps applying to the several bright stars that get this name.  Although Canopus wouldn't seem to fit that description.  Either way, it doesn't seem good to me to state this without some form of reference and I can't find any. Lithopsian (talk) 18:28, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Disambiguation page
Should this be a disambiguation page rather than an article? I wouldn't think the content actually has to change, mostly just adding a few tags. Lithopsian (talk) 18:29, 24 May 2016 (UTC)