flying saucer

English

Noun

flying saucer (plural flying saucers)

1. (informal) An unidentified flying object; UFO; usually with disc-like properties.

   Some connect the recent spate of flying saucer sightings with a rumored top-secret military aviation project.

2. (science fiction) An alien interplanetary vessel with a disc-like shape and generally metallic appearance.
3. A form of confectionery, a small spheroidal capsule of rice paper filled with sherbet.

Translations

disc-shaped unidentified flying object

• Arabic: صَحْن طَائِر m (ṣaḥn ṭāʔir)
• Armenian: թռչող ափսե (tʻṙčʻoġ apʻse)
• Catalan: platet volador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛碟／飞碟 (zh) (fēidié), 飞碟 (zh) (fēidié)

• Czech: létající talíř m
• Danish: flyvende tallerken c
• Dutch: vliegende schotel
• Esperanto: fluganta subtaso
• Estonian: lendav taldrik
• Finnish: lentävä lautanen (fi)
• French: soucoupe volante (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: fliegende Untertasse (de) f
• Greek: ιπτάμενος δίσκος (el) m (iptámenos dískos)
• Hindi: उड़न तश्तरी (uṛan taśtarī)
• Hungarian: repülő csészealj
• Irish: sásar eitilte m
• Italian: disco volante m
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• Japanese: 空飛ぶ円盤 (そらとぶえんばん, sora tobu enban)
• Kazakh: ұшатын табақ (ūşatyn tabaq)
• Korean: 비행접시 (bihaengjeopsi)
• Latin: patella volans f
• Mongolian: нисдэг таваг (nisdeg tavag)
• Norman: souôtâsse volante f
• Norwegian: flygende tallerken
• Polish: latający spodek (pl) m
• Portuguese: disco voador (pt) m
• Romanian: farfurie zburătoare (ro) f
• Russian: лета́ющая таре́лка (ru) f (letájuščaja tarélka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: летећи тањир m

  Roman: leteći tanjir m

• Spanish: platillo volante (es) m, platillo volador (es) m
• Swedish: flygande tefat (sv)
• Thai: จานบิน (th) (jaan-bin), จานผี (th)
• Vietnamese: đĩa bay
• Welsh: soser hedegog f