Rigel
WordNet
noun
(1) The brightest star in Orion
WiktionaryText
Etymology
A corruption of (rijl) ‘foot, leg’, in the Arabic name (ar-rijl al-jabbār) ‘the foot of the great one’.
Proper noun
- A blue supergiant star in the constellation Orion; Beta (β) Orionis. The seventh brightest star in the night sky.