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アストロラーベアストロラーブ
1. [n] {astronomy}
▶ astrolabe (ancient instrument)



History:
3. A 2024-01-24 22:56:15  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
We tend to leave it when the refs don't agree.
2. A* 2024-01-24 04:19:41  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolabe
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/アストロラーベ
>> 日本語ではアラビア語に近いアストロラーブとの表記もあるが、…

Daijirin says アストロラーブ is from French. Wikipedia says it's close to the Arabic pronunciation. I guess it doesn't matter too much.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ アストロラーベ │ 2,333 │ 91.9% │ - (gg5)
│ アストロラーブ │   206 │  8.1% │ - add (daijirin)
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -6,0 +7,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>アストロラーブ</reb>
+</r_ele>
@@ -9 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>astrolabe</gloss>
+<field>&astron;</field>
+<gloss>astrolabe (ancient instrument)</gloss>
1. A 2009-06-20 00:00:00 
  Comments:
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