What does betelguese mean?

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What does betelguese mean?

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According to Wikipedia, Etymology

The name is a corruption of the Arabic يد الجوزاء yad al-jawzā, hand of the central one. The Arabs had earlier called Gemini Jauza ("the central one") but later switched this name to Orion instead. European mistransliteration into Latin during the Middle Ages led to the first character y (ﻴ, with two dots underneath) being misread as a b (ﺒ, with only one dot underneath). Thus throughout the Renaissance the star's name was written as Bait al-Jauza and thought to mean armpit of the central one in Arabic. This led to the modern rendering as Betelgeuse (although a true translation of "armpit" would be ابط, transliterated as Ibţ,[6] hence in 1899 Richard Hinckley Allen mistakenly gave the origin as Ibţ al Jauzah).[7] In German, the star's name was corrupted even further: it is called Beteigeuze, because the letter l in the romanised name was mistaken for the letter i.