An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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neighborhood
  همسایگی   
hamsâyegi (#)

Fr.: voisinage   

1) The area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity. → solar neighborhood.
2) Math.: An → open set that contains a given point.

From neighbor, M.E., O.E. neahgebur, from neahnear + -hood suffix denoting "state or condition of being;" M.E. -hode, -hod; O.E. -had "condition, position," cognate with Ger. -heit, Du. -heid.

Hamsâyegi, noun from hamsâyé "neighbor," literally "under, sharing the same shade," from ham-, → syn-, + sâyé, → shadow.

solar neighborhood
  همسایگی ِ خورشید   
hamsâyegi-ye xoršid (#)

Fr.: voisinage solaire   

That part of the Milky Way galaxy lying near the Sun. In fact there is no definition of the exact radius of this region. It is referred to the immediate solar neighborhood (within about 5 pc), the solar neighborhood (within about 25 pc), and the extended solar neighborhood (within a few hundred pc).

solar; → neighborhood.