Summer Triangle

The Unicode number of each Arabic letter is shown. Links are to the Wikipedia article for each star.

ذنب Deneb

Deneb means “tail”. It’s cognate to the Hebrew word for “tail”, זָנָב (zanav). Both languages are read from right to left. 1600 to 3200 light years away.
  1. ذ thal (0630): (the consonant that starts the word “Dhimmi”)
  2. ن noon (0646)
  3. ب beh (0628)

واقع Vega

Vega means “falling, diving”. It’s a dive-bombing eagle. 25.3 light years.
  1. و waw (0648)
  2. ا alef (0627)
  3. ق qaf (0642)
  4. ع ain (0639)

الطائر Altair

Altair means “the flying”. (The prefix ال “al” means “the”.) It’s the flying eagle. 17 light years.
  1. ا alef (0627)
  2. ل lam (0644)
  3. ط tah (0637)
  4. ا alef (0627)
  5. ئ yeh (0574) with hamza
  6. ر reh (0631)