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السلحفاة

word:ar:السلحفاة

as-Sulaḥfāt, 'the tortoise' — an Arabic name for a star of the Lyre, recalling that the first lyre was strung across a tortoise shell; the source of the star-name Sulafat. The instrument of Orpheus, remembered in the sky as the shell it was made from.