Pleiades

See also: pléiades and Plêiades

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Pleiades, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaɪədiːz/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpliːədiːz/, /ˈpleɪədiːz/, /ˈplaɪədiːz/

Proper noun

Pleiades

Pleiades star cluster

1. (Greek mythology) The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
2. (astronomy) An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.

Synonyms

• Seven Sisters

Related terms

• Pleiad, Pleiadian

Translations

Greek mythology

• Asturian: Pléyades
• Bashkir: Өлкәр (Ölkər)
• Basque: Pleiade
• Breton: Pleiadezed
• Bulgarian: Плеяди (Plejadi)
• Catalan: Plèiades
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普勒阿得斯 (Pǔlèādésī)

• Czech: Plejády
• Danish: Plejaderne
• Dutch: Pleiaden
• Esperanto: Plejadoj
• Estonian: Plejaadid
• Finnish: Plejadit (fi)
• French: Pléiades (fr)
• German: Plejaden (de)
• Greek: Πλειάδες (el) (Pleiádes)

  Ancient Greek: Πλειάδες f pl (Pleiádes)

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• Hebrew: פליאדות
• Italian: Pleiadi
• Japanese: プレイアデス (Pureiadesu)
• Lithuanian: Plejadės
• Luxembourgish: Pleiaden
• Maori: Matariki
• Norwegian: Pleiadene
• Polish: Plejady (pl)
• Portuguese: Plêiades f
• Russian: Плеяды (ru) (Plejady)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Плејаде

  Roman: Plejade (sh)

• Slovene: Plejade
• Spanish: Pléyades
• Thai: ไพลยาดีส (plaiyaadèet)
• Turkish: Ülker (tr)
• Ukrainian: Плеяди (Plejady)

astronomy

• Arabic: الثُّرَيَّا f (aṯ-ṯurayyā)
• Aragonese: Crapetas
• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: ալաւունք (alawunkʻ)

• Avestan: 𐬞𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬈𐬥𐬌 (Paoiryaeni)
• Bau Bidayuh: sikora
• Belarusian: Аб'ект Месье M45 (Abʺjekt Mjesʹje M45)
• Bulgarian: Плеяди (Plejadi)
• Catalan: Plèiades
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 昴宿星團／昴宿星团 (maau⁵ sau³ sing¹ tyun⁴), 昴宿星团 (maau⁵ sau³ sing¹ tyun⁴), 七姊妹星團／七姊妹星团 (cat¹ zi² mui⁶ sing¹ tyun⁴), 七姊妹星团 (cat¹ zi² mui⁵ sing¹ tyun⁴), 昴宿團／昴宿团, 昴宿团 (maau⁵ sau³ tyun⁴), 昴宿團／昴宿团, 昴宿团 (Mǎoxiùtuán)

  Mandarin: 昴宿星團／昴宿星团 (zh) (Mǎoxiù xīngtuán), 昴宿星团 (zh) (Mǎoxiù xīngtuán), 七姊妹星團／七姊妹星团 (zh) (Qī Zǐmèi xīngtuán), 七姊妹星团 (zh) (Qī Zǐmèi xīngtuán)

• Czech: Plejády, Kuřátka (cs)
• Danish: Plejaderne
• Dutch: Zevengesternte
• Esperanto: Plejadoj
• Estonian: Plejaadid
• Finnish: Seulaset (fi) pl, Plejadit (fi) pl
• French: Pléiades (fr)
• German: Plejaden (de) f pl, Siebengestirn (de) n
• Greek: Πλειάδες (el) f pl (Pleiádes)
• Hebrew: פליאדות
• Hindi: कृत्तिका f (kŕttikā), सुरैया (hi) f (suraiyā)
• Hungarian: Messier 45, Plejádok, Fiastyúk, Hetes (hu)
• Icelandic: Sjöstirnið
• Ido: Pleyado
• Indonesian: Kartika
• Italian: Pleiadi
• Japanese: 昴 (ja), スバル (Subaru), プレアデス星団 (Pureadesu seidan)
• Karok: ataynamtunvêech
• Kazakh: Үркер (Ürker)
• Korean: 플레이아데스성단 (Peulleiadeseu seongdan)
• Kumyk: Уьлкер (Ülker)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پێروو (pêrû)

  Northern Kurdish: pêvir (ku) f

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• Lakota: tȟayámni
• Latin: Vergiliae
• Latvian: Plejādes, Sietiņš
• Lingala: Bangɔndɔ nsambo
• Lithuanian: Plejadės
• Luxembourgish: Plejaden
• Malay: bintang kartika, bintang ketika, bintang puyuh, bintang suraya, bintang tujuh
• Maori: Matariki, te Tātai-o-Matariki, te Huihui-o-Matariki
• Nahuatl: Tiyānquiztli
• Navajo: dilyéhé
• Norman: Pouochinniéthe f
• Norwegian: Pleiadene
• Ojibwe: Bagone-giizhig, madoodiswan
• Ossetian: Авд хойы (Avd xojy)
• Persian: پروین (fa) (parvin), ثریا (fa) (sorayyā), پروی (parvī)
• Polish: Plejady (pl)
• Portuguese: Plêiades
• Quechua: Unquy quyllurkuna
• Romanian: Pleiada, găinușă (ro) f
• Russian: Плея́ды (ru) f pl (Plejády)
• Sanskrit: ऋक्षाः m pl (ṛkṣāḥ), कृत्तिका (sa) f (kṛttikā)
• Scottish Gaelic: Na Seachd-Reultan f pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Плејаде, Влашићи m pl, Мессиер 45

  Roman: Plejade (sh), Vlašići (sh) m pl, Messier 45

• Slovak: Plejády
• Sotho: Selemela
• Spanish: Pléyades
• Swahili: Kilimia, Thurea
• Swedish: Plejaderna (sv)
• Tagalog: Mapulon, Supot ni Hudas, Apulon
• Tamil: கார்த்திகை (ta) (kārttikai)
• Thai: กระจุกดาวลูกไก่ (grà-jùk daao lûuk-gài)
• Turkish: Ülker (tr)
• Ukrainian: Стожари (uk) (Stožary)
• Urdu: ثریا m (suraiyā)
• Vietnamese: Tua Rua
• Yakut: Үргэл, сулус бөлөҕө (Ürgel, sulus bölöğö)

See also

• Hyades

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) Plēiadēs

1. nominative plural of Plēias
2. accusative plural of Plēias
3. vocative plural of Plēias