An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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protogalaxy
  پوروا-کهکشان   
purvâ-kahkešân

Fr.: proto-galaxie   

A huge mass of gas that by contraction and condensation becomes a galaxy of stars. A galaxy during the early phase, before it has developed its present shape and stellar/gas content.

→ proto-; → galaxy.