نكشتر

नक्षऽ nakshatra, vulg. nakshatar, naććhattar, and corr. H. िनक्षऽ nikshatr, s.m. A star; a constellation, an asterism in the moon's path, a lunar mansion (of which, according to the earlier reckoning, twenty-seven are enumerated (two and a quarter in each sign of the zodiac); but in the later astrology more usually twenty-eight, distinct in name, figure, and number of stars);—(in Poetry) a symbol for the number twenty-seven:—nakshatra-ćakr, s.m. A particular diagram for astrological calculations;—the sphere of the fixed stars;—the lunar asterisms collectively:—nakshatramālā, s.f. A ring or group of stars;—a table of the asterisms in the moon's path; the asterisms collectively;—a necklace of twenty-seven pearls.