شَمْس (šams) f: pre-Islamic Arabic, from common Semitic *śamš-
Moon
قَمَر (qamar) m: pre-Islamic Arabic, not shared with any other Semitic languages (except where it was adopted from Arabic)
Mercury
عُطَارِد (ʿuṭārid) m: pre-Islamic Arabic, of unclear origin
† الكَاتِب (al-kātib) m: literally "scribe", a variant name in the medieval Islamic West (Andalusia and Maghreb), from traditional Babylonian-Hellenistic associations of the mercurial god with writing
Venus
الزُّهَرَة (al-zuhara) f: pre-Islamic Arabic, literally "the shining one", from the root z-h-r, perhaps related to the (pagan) Hebrew name for Venus preserved in the Greek transcription ζερουα zeroua (Epiphanius, Panarion)
نَجْم الصَبَاح (najm al-ṣabāh [f]) m: pre-Islamic Arabic, "morning star", lit. "star of the morning"
نَجْم الْمَسَاء (najm al-masāʾ [m]) m: pre-Islamic Arabic, "evening star", lit. "star of the evening"
Mars
الْمِرِّيخ (al-mirrīḵ) m: pre-Islamic Arabic, etymology unknown
Jupiter
الْمُشْتَرِي (al-muštarī) m: pre-Islamic Arabic, literally "the purchaser"; either from Akkadian muštarīlu (of the same meaning), or the source of that word
† (barjīs) m: pre-Islamic (?) Arabic, rarer variant
Saturn
زُحَل (zuḥal) m: pre-Islamic Arabic, literally "exalted one"
† الْمقاتل (al-muqātil) m: literally "the fighter", variant in the medieval Islamic West
Uranus
أُورَانُوس (ʾūrānūs) m: from common European Uranus
Neptune
نِبْتُون (nabtūn) m: from common European Neptun-
Pluto
بْلُوتُو (balūtū) m: from common European Pluto(n)
Sources: Encyclopedia of Islam (s.v. Shams, ˁUṭārid, Mushtarī, Zuhara, Zuḥal), Wiktionary, UIO Etymological Dictionary of Arabic,
Hellenizations, Latinizations:
Late ancient
Sampsa (šams)
(Aelius Herodianus et Pseudo-Herodianus, De Prosodia catholica, s.v. Σάμψα)
Khamar Χαμάρ (qamar), Zebō Ζέβω ([najm al-]ṣabāh)
(Bartholomaeus Edessenus [Bartholomew of Edessa], Confutatio Agareni [Refutation of the Arab])
Medieval LatinYazemiz (šams), Camar (qamar), Hotarit (ʿuṭārid), Zohara (zuhara), Marech (al-mirrīḵ), Misteri (muštarī), Zohal (zuḥal)
(Picatrix)
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