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Adara
Adara can be a misspelling of:
* Adhara, the binary star ε Canis Majoris, in the constellation Canis Major ...
"It seems probable that there were virtually only two, namely the Atash-i Vahram [literally: "victorious fire", later misunderstood to be the Fire of Bahram, see Gnoli, 2002:512] and the lesser Atash-i Adaran, or 'Fire of Fires', a parish fire, ...
The name of this star may also be written as "Adara".
The name comes from the Arabic. The Arabs designated four stars Epsilon, Delta, Eta, and Omicron Canis Majoris as Al `Adhara, meaning The Virgins.
Asmidiske (ξ Pup), Adara (ε CMa), Alnilam (ε Ori), Aludra (η CMa), Betelgeuse (α Ori), Gomeisa, (β CMi), Muliphen (γ CMa), Murzim (β CMa Procyon, (α CMi), Saiph (κ Ori), Sirius (α CMa), ...
The second brightest star in the constellation Canis Major. It lies below Sirius at the lower right of a triangle of bright stars known to the Arabs as "the Virgins," from which its name (alternatively spelled "Adara" or "Undara") derives.
 See also: Second, Star, Sun, Canis Major, Sky
  
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