planet

See also: Planet, planèt, and plånet

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English planete, from Old French planete, from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”) (ellipsis of πλάνητες ἀστέρες (plánētes astéres, “wandering stars”)), from Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō, “wander about, stray”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Latin pālor (“wander about, stray”), Old Norse flana (“to rush about”), and Norwegian flanta (“to wander about”). More at flaunt. Perhaps it is from a nasalized form of PIE root *pele- (2) "flat; to spread," on the notion of "spread out," "but the semantics are highly problematic," according to Beekes, who notes the similarity of meaning to Greek plazein "to make devious, repel, dissuade from the right path, bewilder," but adds, "it is hard to think of a formal connection." So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun but not the Earth; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s in English. The Greek word is an enlarged form of planes, planetos "who wanders around, wanderer," also "wandering star, planet," in medicine "unstable temperature."

Pronunciation[edit]

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈplænɪt/
(General American, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈplænət/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ænɪt

Noun[edit]

planet (plural planets)

(now historical or astrology) Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. [from 14^thc.]
Synonyms: wandering star, wanderstar
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821, page 260:
  Be they not dreames of humane vanity, […] to make of our knowne earth a bright shining planet [transl. astre]?
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 288:
  The moon […] began to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 361:
  Another of Boehme's followers, the Welshman Morgan Llwyd, also believed that the seven planets could be found within man.
(astronomy) A body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or star cluster) and dominates the region of its orbit; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. [from 17^thc.]
Hypernym: planemo (in IAU usage)

Hyponyms: binary planet, Blue Planet, carbide planet, carbon planet, classical planet, diamond planet, double planet, dual planet, dwarf planet (in non-IAU usage), exoplanet, extrasolar planet, free-floating planet (in non-IAU usage), gas giant, giant planet, hycean planet, ice giant, inferior planet, inner planet, interstellar planet (in non-IAU usage), major planet, mesoplanet, minor planet (in non-IAU usage), outer planet, Planet Earth, primary planet (in non-IAU usage), Red Planet, rogue planet (in non-IAU usage), satellite planet (in non-IAU usage), silicate planet, silicon planet, supergiant planet, superior planet, superplanet, terrestrial planet, water planet

Coordinate terms: brown dwarf, sub-brown dwarf
- 1640, John Wilkins, A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets, title:
  A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets
- 2006 December 22, Alok Jha, The Guardian:
  Their decision will force a rewrite of science textbooks because the solar system is now a place with eight planets and three newly defined "dwarf planets"—a new category of object that includes Pluto.
construed with the or this: synonym of Earth.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
  "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
  It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].

Usage notes[edit]

The term planet originally meant any star which wandered across the sky, and generally included comets and the Sun and Moon. With the Copernican revolution, the Earth was recognized as a planet, and the Sun was seen to be fundamentally different. The Galileian satellites of Jupiter were at first called planets (satellite planets), but later reclassified along with the Moon. The first asteroids were also considered to be planets, but were reclassified when it was realized that there were a great many of them, crossing each other's orbits, in a zone where only a single planet had been expected. Likewise, Pluto was found where an outer planet had been expected, but doubts were raised when it turned out to cross Neptune's orbit and to be much smaller than the expectation required. When Eris, an outer body more massive than Pluto, was discovered, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the word planet as above. However, a significant number of astronomers reject the IAU definition, especially in the field of planetary geology. Some are of the opinion that orbital parameters should be irrelevant, and that either any equilibrium (ellipsoidal) body in direct orbit around a star is a planet (there are likely at least a dozen such bodies in the Solar system) or that any equilibrium body at all is a planet, thus re-accepting the Moon, the Galileian satellites and other large moons as planets, as well as rogue planets.

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Translations[edit]

each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky

Abkhaz: апланета (aṗlaneṭa)
Adyghe: планет (plānet)
Afrikaans: planeet (af)
Albanian: planet (sq) m
Amharic: ፕላኔት (pəlanet)
Arabic: كَوْكَب سَيَّار‎ m (kawkab sayyār), كَوْكَب‎ (ar) m (kawkab)
Egyptian Arabic: كوكب‎ m (kawkab)

Hijazi Arabic: كَوْكَب‎ m (kawkab)
Aragonese: planeta
Armenian: մոլորակ (hy) (molorak)
Assamese: গ্ৰহ (groh)
Asturian: planeta (ast) m
Azerbaijani: planet (az), səyyarə
Banyumasan: planet
Bashkir: планета (planeta)
Basque: planeta (eu)
Belarusian: плане́та f (planjéta), плянэ́та f (pljanéta) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: গ্রহ (grôh)
Bulgarian: плане́та (bg) f (planéta)
Burmese: ဂြိုဟ် (my) (gruih)
Catalan: planeta (ca) m
Chechen: планета (planeta)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 行星 (hang⁴ sing¹, haang⁴ sing¹)

Mandarin: 行星 (zh) (xíngxīng)

Min Nan: 行星 (zh-min-nan) (hêng-chhiⁿ, hêng-chheⁿ, hêng-seng)
Chuvash: планета (planet̬a)
Coptic: ⲫⲱⲥⲧⲏⲣ m (phōstēr)
Cornish: planet
Crimean Tatar: seyyare, planeta
Czech: planeta (cs) f
Danish: planet (da) c
Dutch: planeet (nl) f
Esperanto: planedo (eo)
Estonian: planeet (et)
Extremaduran: praneta
Faroese: gongustjørna f
Fiji Hindi: grah
Finnish: planeetta (fi)
Franco-Provençal: planèta
French: planète (fr) f
Friulian: planet
Galician: planeta (gl) m
Georgian: პლანეტა (ṗlaneṭa), ცთომილი (ctomili)
German: Planet (de) m, Wandelstern (de) m (old)
Rhine Franconian: planed (Palatine)
Greek: πλανήτης (el) m (planítis)
Ancient: πλανήτης m (planḗtēs)
Guaraní: mbyjajere
Gujarati: ગ્રહ m (grah)
Haitian Creole: planèt
Hawaiian: hōkū hele
Hebrew: כּוֹכַב לֶכֶת‎ (he) m (kokháv lékhet)
Hindi: ग्रह (hi) m (grah)
Hungarian: bolygó (hu), (dated) planéta (hu)
Icelandic: reikistjarna (is) f
Ido: planeto (io)
Ilocano: planeta
Indonesian: planet (id), bintang siarah (id)
Interlingua: planeta
Irish: pláinéad (ga) m
Italian: pianeta (it) m
Japanese: 惑星 (ja) (わくせい, wakusei), プラネット (puranetto), 迷い星 (まよいぼし, mayoiboshi), 星 (ja) (ほし, hoshi)
Javanese: planèt
Kabardian: планетэ (plānetă)
Kannada: ಗ್ರಹ (kn) (graha)
Kapampangan: planeta
Karakalpak: planeta
Kazakh: ғаламшар (ğalamşar), планета (kk) (planeta)
Khmer: ផ្កាយព្រះគ្រោះ (phkaay prĕəh krŭəh), ផ្កាយ (km) (phkaay)
Kongo: mweta
Korean: 행성(行星) (ko) (haengseong), 유성(遊星) (ko) (yuseong)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: هەسارە‎ (ku) (hesare)

Northern Kurdish: gerstêrk (ku), hesare (ku), exter (ku)
Kyrgyz: планета (planeta)
Lao: ດາວເຄາະ (lo) (dāo khǫ), ເຄາະ (khǫ), ດາວ (lo) (dāo)
Latin: planēta (la) m, planētēs m, stella errans, stella vaga
Latvian: planēta f
Limburgish: planeet (li)
Lingala: monzɔ́tɔ mwa malíli
Lithuanian: planeta (lt) f
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: planeet

German Low German: Planet (nds) m

Luxembourgish: planéit
Macedonian: плане́та f (planéta)
Malagasy: fajiry (mg)
Malay: planet (ms), bintang siarah, bintang beredar
Malayalam: ഗ്രഹം (ml) (grahaṃ)
Maltese: pjaneta f
Manx: planaid
Maori: whetūao, whetū mārama, aorangi (mi)
Marathi: ग्रह m (grah)
Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭧𐭲𐭥‎𐭠𐭯‎ (abāxtar)
Minangkabau: planet
Mirandese: planeta
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гариг (mn) (garig), гараг (mn) (garag)

Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ (ɣarag)
Nahuatl: nehnencācītlalli
Narom: plianète
Neapolitan: chianeta
Nepali: ग्रह (ne) (graha)
Norman: plianète f (Jersey)
North Frisian: planeete
Northern Sami: planehta
Norwegian:
Bokmål: planet (no) m, klode m

Nynorsk: planet (nn) m, klode m
Occitan: planeta (oc) f
Old English: tungol m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: планита f (planita), планитъ m (planitŭ)
Oriya: ଗ୍ରହ (or) (grôhô)
Ossetian: планетӕ (planetæ)
Ottoman Turkish: سیاره‎ (seyyâre)
Pashto: سياره‎ (ps) f (sayāra)
Persian: سیاره‎ (fa) (sayâre), اختر‎ (fa) (axtar) (archaic), اباختر‎ (fa) (abâxtar), هرباسپ‎ (harbâsp), هرباسب‎ (harbâsb)
Picard: planète
Piedmontese: pianeta
Pitcairn-Norfolk: plaanet
Polish: planeta (pl) f
Portuguese: planeta (pt) m
Punjabi: ਗ੍ਰਹਿ m (grhi), ਨਛੱਤਰ m (nachattar)
Quechua: puriq quyllur
Romanian: planetă (ro) f
Romansch: planet m
Russian: плане́та (ru) f (planéta)
Sanskrit: ग्रह (sa) m (graha)
Saterland Frisian: planet
Scots: planet
Scottish Gaelic: planaid
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: плане́та f, пла̀не̄т m

Roman: planéta (sh) f, plànēt (sh) m
Shona: chindeya
Sicilian: pianeta
Silesian: planeta
Sinhalese: ග්රහ (graha)
Slovak: planéta (sk) f
Slovene: planet (sl) m
Spanish: planeta (es) m
Sundanese: planét
Swahili: sayari (sw)
Swedish: planet (sv) c
Tagalog: planeta (tl), buntala
Tajik: сайёра (sayyora), кавкаб (kavkab)
Tamil: கிரகம் (ta) (kirakam)
Tatar: планета (planeta)
Telugu: గ్రహము (te) (grahamu)
Tetum: planeta
Thai: ดาวนพเคราะห์ (th), ดาวเคราะห์ (th) (daao-krɔ́), เคราะห์ (th) (krɔ́), ดาว (th) (daao)
Tibetan: གཟའ (gza'), གཟའ་སྐར (gza' skar)
Tigrinya: ፕላነት (pəlanät)
Tok Pisin: planet
Turkish: gezegen (tr), planet (tr) (rare), seyyare (tr) (archaic)
Turkmen: planeta
Ukrainian: плане́та f (planéta)
Urdu: گرہ‎ m (grah), سیارہ‎ (sayārā)
Uyghur: سەييارە‎ (seyyare), پلانېتا‎ (planëta)
Uzbek: sayyora (uz), planeta (uz), kavkab (uz) (poetic: star, planet)
Venetian: pianeta (vec)
Vietnamese: hành tinh (vi) (行星)
Võro: hod'otäht
Walloon: planete (wa) f, bole f
Waray-Waray: planeta
Welsh: planed (cy)
West Frisian: planeet (fy) c
Yakut: одон (odon)
Yiddish: פּלאַנעט‎ m (planet)
Yoruba: plánẹ̀tì

rocky or gaseous spherical bodies orbiting the Sun

Arabic: كَوْكَب‎ (ar) m (kawkab)
Armenian: մոլորակ (hy) (molorak)
Asturian: planeta (ast) m
Basque: planeta (eu)
Belarusian: плане́та f (planjéta)
Bengali: গ্রহ (grôh)
Bulgarian: плане́та (bg) f (planéta)
Catalan: planeta (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 行星 (hang⁴ sing¹, haang⁴ sing¹)

Mandarin: 行星 (zh) (xíngxīng)

Min Nan: 行星 (zh-min-nan) (hêng-seng, hêng-chheⁿ, hêng-chhiⁿ), 惑星 (he̍k-chheⁿ, he̍k-chhiⁿ)
Czech: planeta (cs) f
Danish: planet (da) c
Dutch: planeet (nl) f
Esperanto: planedo (eo)
Estonian: planeet (et)
Faroese: gongustjørna f
Finnish: planeetta (fi)
French: planète (fr) f
Galician: planeta (gl) m
Georgian: პლანეტა (ṗlaneṭa), ცთომილი (ctomili)
German: Planet (de) m
Greek: πλανήτης (el) m (planítis)
Gujarati: ગ્રહ (grah)
Haitian Creole: planèt
Hawaiian: hōkū hele
Hebrew: כּוֹכַב לֶכֶת‎ (he) m (kokháv lékhet)
Hindi: ग्रह (hi) (grah)
Hungarian: bolygó (hu), (dated) planéta (hu)
Icelandic: reikistjarna (is) f, pláneta (is) f
Ido: planeto (io)
Indonesian: planet (id)
Irish: pláinéad (ga) m
Italian: pianeta (it) m
Japanese: 惑星 (ja) (わくせい, wakusei)
Kabyle: amtiweg m

Karakalpak: planeta
Korean: 행성(行星) (ko) (haengseong), 유성(遊星) (ko) (yuseong)
Latvian: planēta f
Lithuanian: planeta (lt) f
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: planeet

German Low German: Planet (nds) m
Luxembourgish: Planéit (lb)
Malay: planet (ms)
Manx: planaid m, mac greiney m, rollage hroailt f, rollage scughee f
Marathi: ग्रह m (grah)
Nahuatl: nehnencācītlalli
Navajo: jóhonaaʼéí yináádáłígíí
Norman: plianète f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: planet (no) m

Nynorsk: planet (nn) m
Ottoman Turkish: سیاره‎ (seyyâre)
Polish: planeta (pl) f
Portuguese: planeta (pt) m
Romanian: planetă (ro) f
Romansch: planet m
Russian: плане́та (ru) f (planéta)
Samogitian: planeta f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: плане́та f, пла̀не̄т m

Roman: planéta (sh) f, plànēt (sh) m
Slovak: planéta (sk) f
Spanish: planeta (es) m
Swahili: sayari (sw)
Swedish: planet (sv) c
Tagalog: planeta (tl), buntala
Telugu: గ్రహము (te) (grahamu)
Thai: ดาวนพเคราะห์ (th)
Turkish: gezegen (tr), planet (tr) (rare)
Ukrainian: плане́та f (planéta)
Walloon: planete (wa) f
West Frisian: planeet (fy) c

similar body in orbit around a star

Arabic: كَوْكَب‎ (ar) m (kawkab)
Armenian: մոլորակ (hy) (molorak)
Asturian: planeta (ast) m
Basque: planeta (eu)
Bengali: গ্রহ (grôh)
Bulgarian: плане́та (bg) f (planéta)
Catalan: planeta (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 行星 (zh) (xíngxīng)
Czech: planeta (cs) f
Danish: planet (da) c
Dhivehi: ތަރި‎ (tari)
Dutch: planeet (nl) f
Dzongkha: གཟའ་སྐར (gza' skar)
Esperanto: planedo (eo)
Estonian: planeet (et)
Faroese: gongustjørna f
Finnish: planeetta (fi)
French: planète (fr) f
Galician: planeta (gl) m
Georgian: პლანეტა (ṗlaneṭa), ცთომილი (ctomili)
German: Planet (de) m
Greek: πλανήτης (el) m (planítis)
Gujarati: ગ્રહ (grah)
Haitian Creole: planèt
Hawaiian: hōkū hele
Hebrew: כּוֹכַב לֶכֶת‎ (he) m (kokháv lékhet)
Hindi: ग्रह (hi) m (grah)
Hungarian: bolygó (hu), (dated) planéta (hu)
Icelandic: reikistjarna (is) f, pláneta (is) f
Ido: planeto (io)
Irish: pláinéad (ga) m, rinn m
Italian: pianeta (it) m
Japanese: 惑星 (ja) (わくせい, wakusei)

Kabyle: amtiweg
Korean: 행성(行星) (ko) (haengseong), 위성(衛星) (ko) (wiseong)
Latvian: planēta f
Lithuanian: planeta (lt) f
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: planeet

German Low German: Planet (nds) m
Malay: planet (ms)
Manx: planaid m, mac greiney m, rollage hroailt f, rollage scughee f
Marathi: ग्रह m (grah)
Norman: plianète f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: planet (no) m

Nynorsk: planet (nn) m
Polish: planeta (pl) f
Portuguese: planeta (pt) m
Romansch: planet m
Russian: плане́та (ru) f (planéta)
Samogitian: planeta f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: плане́та f, пла̀не̄т m

Roman: planéta (sh) f, plànēt (sh) m
Slovak: planéta (sk) f
Spanish: planeta (es) m
Swahili: sayari (sw)
Swedish: planet (sv) c
Tagalog: planeta (tl), buntala
Telugu: గ్రహము (te) (grahamu)
Thai: ดาวนพเคราะห์ (th)
Turkish: gezegen (tr), planet (tr) (rare)
Ukrainian: планета f (planeta)
Walloon: planete (wa) f
West Frisian: planeet (fy) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Ancient Greek: ^{(please verify)} πλάνης m (plánēs)
Breton: ^{(please verify)} planedenn (br) f
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} planeta
Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ಗ್ರಹ (kn) (graha) ^{(please verify)} ಅರಿಲ್ಸುತ್ತುಗ (kn) (arilsuttuga)
Latin: ^{(please verify)} stella errans f, ^{(please verify)} planeta (la) m
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} planeta (lt) f
Luxembourgish: ^{(please verify)} Planéit (lb) m
Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} ഗ്രഹം (ml) (grahaṃ) 1, 2
Maltese: ^{(please verify)} pjaneta f
Middle High German: ^{(please verify)} plânête m
Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} гариг (mn) (garig)

Neapolitan: ^{(please verify)} chianéta m
Punjabi: ^{(please verify)} ਗ੍ਰਹਿ m (grhi)
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} planetă (ro)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: планета f

Roman: planeta f
Sindhi: ^{(please verify)} گِرَھُھ‎ (sd) m (girahu)
Slovene: ^{(please verify)} planet (sl) m
Urdu: ^{(please verify)} سیاره‎ (siyārā)
Volapük: ^{(please verify)} planet (vo)
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} planed (cy)
Zulu: ^{(please verify)} unozungezilanga

References[edit]

planet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
First Steps to Astronomy and Geography, 1828, (Hatchard & Son: Piccadilly, London).

Anagrams[edit]

Plante, pental, platen

Albanian[edit]

Albanian Wikipedia has an article on:

Planeti

Wikipedia ^sq

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [planɛt]

Noun[edit]

planet m (indefinite plural planete, definite singular planeti, definite plural planetet)

planet

Declension[edit]

declension of planet

	indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara)		definite forms (trajta të shquara)
	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)
nominative (emërore)	planet	planete	planeti	planetet
accusative (kallëzore)	planet	planete	planetin	planetet
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së)	planeti	planeteve	planetit	planetevet
dative (dhanore)	planeti	planeteve	planetit	planetevet
ablative (rrjedhore)	planeti	planetesh	planetit	planetevet