astronaut

See also: Astronaut

English

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

Etymology

From astro- +‎ -naut. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) and ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăsʹtrənôt'
  • IPA^(key): /ˈæstɹəˌnɔːt/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈæstɹəˌnɔt/, /ˈæʃtɹəˌnɔt/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈæstɹəˌnɒt/

  • Audio (CA):

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Noun

astronaut (plural astronauts)

1. A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
   1. An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut, taikonaut, spationaut, and vyomanaut.
      • 2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:

        Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.

2. (Hong Kong) A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and their adopted home country.

Synonyms

• cosmonaut

Hyponyms

• astronautess
• spationaut
• taikonaut
• vyomanaut

Derived terms

• actornaut
• Afronaut
• ancient astronaut
• astronaut ice cream
• astronautrix
• astronautte
• astronette

 

Related terms

• aeronaut
• astronautic
• astronautical
• astronautics
• cosmonaut
• space cadet
• taikonaut
• vyomanaut

 

Translations

• Albanian: astronaut (sq) ?, kosmonaut ?
• Arabic: رَجُل فَضَاء m (rajul faḍāʔ), رَائِد فَضَاء m (rāʔid faḍāʔ), مَلَّاح فَضَائِيّ m (mallāḥ faḍāʔiyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: رائد فضاء m (rāʾed faḍāʾ)

• Armenian: աստղագնաց (hy) (astġagnacʻ)
• Asturian: astronauta m or f
• Belarusian: касмана́ўт m (kasmanáŭt), астрана́ўт m (astranáŭt)
• Bengali: নভোচারী (nobhōcari)
• Catalan: astronauta m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太空人 (zh) (tàikōngrén), 宇航員／宇航员 (zh) (yǔhángyuán), 宇航员 (zh) (yǔhángyuán), 航天員／航天员 (zh) (hángtiānyuán), 航天员 (zh) (hángtiānyuán), 宇宙飛行員／宇宙飞行员 (yǔzhòu fēixíngyuán), 宇宙飞行员 (yǔzhòu fēixíngyuán)

• Chukchi: риӈэнэӈэткульын (riṇėnėṇėtkulʹyn)
• Cornish: stervarner m, stervarnores f, den efanvos m, benyn efanvos f
• Czech: kosmonaut (cs) m
• Danish: astronaut (da)
• Dutch: ruimtevaarder (nl) m, astronaut (nl) m
• Erzya: тештюиця (ťešťujića)
• Esperanto: astronaŭto, astronaŭtino (female), kosmonaŭto, kosmonaŭtino (female)
• Estonian: kosmoselendur, kosmonaut (RU), astronaut (et) (US), tähelendur, taikonaut (CN)
• Faroese: rúmdarmaður m, rúmdarfari m
• Finnish: astronautti (fi), avaruuslentäjä (fi)
• French: astronaute (fr) m or f
• Galician: astronauta (gl) m or f
• Georgian: ასტრონავტი (asṭronavṭi), კოსმონავტი (ḳosmonavṭi)
• German: Astronaut (de) m, Raumfahrer (de) m, Kosmonaut (de) m, Weltraumpilot m, Raumpilot m
• Greek: αστροναύτης (el) m (astronáftis)
• Hebrew: אסטרונאוט (he) m (astronáut)
• Hindi: अंतरिक्ष यात्री m (antrikṣ yātrī)
• Hungarian: űrhajós (hu), asztronauta (hu)
• Icelandic: geimfari (is) m
• Ido: astronauto (io)
• Indonesian: astronot (id), antariksawan (id)
• Irish: spásaire m
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• Italian: astronauta (it)
• Japanese: 宇宙飛行士 (ja) (うちゅうひこうし, uchū-hikōshi)
• Kazakh: ғарышкер (kk) (ğaryşker)
• Korean: 우주비행사(宇宙飛行士) (ko) (ujubihaengsa)
• Lao: ນັກອະວະກາດ (nak ʼa wa kāt), ມະນຸດອະວະກາດ (ma nut ʼa wa kāt)
• Latvian: astronauts m
• Lithuanian: astronautas m, astronautė f
• Macedonian: космона́ут m (kosmonáut), астрона́ут m (astronáut)
• Malay: angkasawan (ms)
• Mongolian: сансрын нисэгч (sansryn nisegč), астронавт (astronavt)
• Navajo: wótááhgóó ałnááʼáłtʼahí
• Persian: فضانورد (fa) (fazâ-navard)
• Polish: astronauta (pl) m, astronautka (pl) f, kosmonauta (pl) m, kosmonautka (pl) f
• Portuguese: astronauta (pt) m or f
• Romanian: astronaut (ro) m, astronaută f
• Russian: космона́вт (ru) m (kosmonávt), астрона́вт (ru) m (astronávt) (US)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: астрона̀ут m, козмона̀ут m, космона̀ут m

  Roman: astronàut (sh) m, kozmonàut (sh) m, kosmonàut (sh) m

• Spanish: astronauta (es) m or f
• Swahili: mwanaanga
• Swedish: astronaut (sv) c
• Tagalog: malintala
• Tamil: விண்ணோடி (viṇṇōṭi)
• Telugu: వ్యోమగామి (te) (vyōmagāmi)
• Thai: มนุษย์อวกาศ (th) (má-nút-à-wá-gàat)
• Turkish: astronot (tr), uzay adamı (tr), uçurcu
• Turkmen: kosmonawt
• Ukrainian: космона́вт m (kosmonávt), астрона́вт (uk) m (astronávt)
• Vietnamese: nhà du hành vũ trụ, phi hành gia (飛行家)
• Volapük: sinafan
• Yiddish: אַסטראָנויט m (astronoyt)

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Albanian

Noun

astronaut

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

   Synonym: kosmonaut

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈastronau̯t]

Noun

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

   Synonym: kosmonaut

Related terms

• astronautika

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA
• Template:R:SSJC

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /astronavt/, [asd̥ʁoˈnɑwˀd̥]

Noun

astronaut c (singular definite astronauten, plural indefinite astronauter)

1. astronaut

Inflection

Declension of astronaut

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	astronaut	astronauten	astronauter	astronauterne
genitive	astronauts	astronautens	astronauters	astronauternes

Related terms

• kosmonaut

Further reading

• astronaut on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English astronaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑ.stroːˈnɑu̯t/, /ˌɑs.troːˈnɑu̯t/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: as‧tro‧naut
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t

Noun

astronaut m (plural astronauten, diminutive astronautje n, feminine astronaute)

1. a (male) astronaut [from early 1950s]

   Synonyms: kosmonaut, ruimtevaarder

Derived terms

• astronautisch

Related terms

• astronautiek

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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English astronaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /astronau̯t̚/, /astronɔt̚/
• Hyphenation: as‧tro‧naut

Noun

astronaut (first-person possessive astronautku, second-person possessive astronautmu, third-person possessive astronautnya)

1. astronaut.

   Synonyms: angkasawan, antariksawan, kosmonaut

Further reading

• “astronaut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English astronaut.

Noun

astronaut m (definite singular astronauten, indefinite plural astronauter, definite plural astronautene)

1. an astronaut

   Synonym: romfarer

References

• “astronaut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English astronaut.

Noun

astronaut m (definite singular astronauten, indefinite plural astronautar, definite plural astronautane)

1. an astronaut

   Synonym: romfarar

References

• “astronaut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French astronaute, English astronaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.troˈnaut/

Noun

astronaut m (plural astronauți, feminine equivalent astronaută)

1. astronaut

   Synonym: cosmonaut

Declension

Declension of astronaut

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) astronaut	astronautul	(niște) astronauți	astronauții
genitive/dative	(unui) astronaut	astronautului	(unor) astronauți	astronauților
vocative	astronautule		astronauților

Related terms

• astronautic
• astronautică
• astronautician

 

See also

• taikonaut

References

• astronaut in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /astronǎut/

Noun

astronàut m (Cyrillic spelling астрона̀ут)

1. astronaut

   Synonyms: kozmonàut, kosmonàut

Declension

Declension of astronaut

	singular	plural
nominative	astronaut	astronauti
genitive	astronauta	astronauta
dative	astronautu	astronautima
accusative	astronauta	astronaute
vocative	astronaute	astronauti
locative	astronautu	astronautima
instrumental	astronautom	astronautima

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Swedish

Etymology

From astro- +‎ -naut.

Noun

astronaut c

1. an astronaut

Declension

Declension of astronaut
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	astronaut	astronauten	astronauter	astronauterna
Genitive	astronauts	astronautens	astronauters	astronauternas

See also

• kosmonaut
• rymdfarare