columba

English - Turkish

Definition of columba in English Turkish dictionary: güvercin; Güvercin takımyıldız

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Definition of columba in English English dictionary: St. Columba of Iona (Old Irish Columb Cille, meaning "Dove of the church"); one of the Gaelic missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages; A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove. It was introduced by Augustin Royer in 1679, as a split from the constellation Canis Major; Any of three other Christian saints who bore the name Columba; {i} Columba Noae, Noah's Dove, constellation of stars in the southern hemisphere (Astronomy); genus of typical pigeons; type genus of the Columbidae: typical pigeons a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum
Columba Noae: constellation of stars
Saint Columba: or Colum or Columcille born 521, Tyrconnell died June 8/9, 597, Iona; feast day June 9 Irish abbot and missionary. A member of the warrior aristocracy, he was excommunicated for his part in a bloody battle. Exiled, he set out to do penance as a missionary. He founded two famous monasteries in Ireland before taking 12 disciples to the Scottish island of Iona ( 563), where they built a church and monastery that served as a base for the conversion of the Scottish Picts, and thereby Scotland, to Christianity

columba

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Co·lum·ba

kōlʌmbı

/ˌkōˈləmbə/ /ˌkoʊˈlʌmbə/

() From Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”)

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