meteor shower

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Noun

meteor shower (plural meteor showers)

1. (astronomy) A phenomenon occurring when many meteors are seen on Earth during a short period of time.

Translations

Meteors seen on Earth for short time period

• Afrikaans: meteoorreën
• Armenian: ասուպների հոսք (asupneri hoskʻ)
• Bengali: উল্কা বৃষ্টি (ulka briśṭi)
• Bulgarian: метеори́тен дъжд m (meteoríten dǎžd)
• Catalan: pluja de meteors f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 流星雨 (lau⁴ sing¹ jyu⁵)

  Mandarin: 流星雨 (zh) (liúxīngyǔ)

• Czech: meteorický roj m
• Danish: meteorregn c
• Dutch: meteorenzwerm (nl)
• Esperanto: meteorfluo
• Estonian: meteoorivool
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: meteoriparvi
• French: pluie de météores (fr) f
• Galician: chuvia de meteoros f
• Georgian: მეტეორული ნაკადი (meṭeoruli naḳadi)
• German: Meteorstrom m
• Gujarati: ઉલ્કાવૃષ્ટિ (ulkāvŕṣṭi)
• Hebrew: מטר מטאורים m (matár-mete'órim)
• Hindi: उल्का वर्षा (ulkā varṣā), उल्कापात (hi) m (ulkāpāt)
• Hungarian: meteorzápor
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: dreigechith m
• Italian: sciame meteorico m
• Japanese: 流星群 (ja) (りゅうせいぐん, ryūseigun)
• Kazakh: метеор жауындары (meteor jauyndary)
• Korean: 유성우 (yuseong'u)
• Latvian: meteoru plūsma
• Macedonian: метеорски дожд m (meteorski dožd)
• Norwegian: meteorregn n, meteorsverm
• Persian: بارش شهابی (bâreš-e šahâbi)
• Polish: rój meteorów m
• Portuguese: chuva de meteoros f, chuva de estrelas
• Romanian: ploaie de stele (ro) f
• Russian: метеорный поток (ru) m (meteornyj potok)
• Serbo-Croatian: meteorski pljusak, метеорски пљусак
• Slovak: meteorický roj m
• Slovene: meteorski roj m
• Spanish: lluvia de meteoros f, lluvia de estrellas f
• Swedish: meteorregn n, meteorsvärm c, meteorskur c
• Thai: ฝนดาวตก (fǒn-daao-dtòk)
• Turkish: meteor yağmuru
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: mưa sao băng

See also

• Draconid
• Leonid
• Lyrid
• Orionid
• Perseid
• Quadrantid