shooting star

English

shooting star (meteor)

shooting star (Dodecatheon clevelandii)

Noun

shooting star (plural shooting stars)

1. A meteor, especially a streak of light in the night sky, caused by a meteoroid burning up as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere.

   Synonyms: falling star, meteor, (rare) faxed star

2. Any of several wild flowering plants in the genus Dodecatheon, mostly found in Western North America.

   Synonym: shootingstar

3. The plant Primula meadia.

Translations

meteor

• Arabic: شِهَاب m (šihāb)
• Armenian: ասուպ (hy) (asup)
• Belarusian: па́даючая зо́рка f (pádajučaja zórka), зні́чка f (zníčka)
• Breton: steredenn-lostek (br)
• Bulgarian: метеор m (meteor)
• Catalan: estel fugaç
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流星 (zh) (liúxīng), 隕星／陨星 (zh) (yǔnxīng)

• Cornish: steren-leski f, steren-wibya f
• Czech: padající hvězda f
• Danish: stjerneskud n
• Dutch: vallende ster m or f
• Dzongkha: སྐར་མདའ (skar mda')
• Esperanto: falstelo
• Faroese: stjørnuskot n
• Finnish: tähdenlento (fi)
• French: étoile filante (fr) f
• Galician: estrela fugaz (gl) f
• Georgian: მოწყვეტილი ვარსკვლავი (moc̣q̇veṭili varsḳvlavi)
• German: Sternschnuppe (de) f
• Greek: διάττοντας αστέρας (el) m (diáttontas astéras)
• Hawaiian: hōkū welowelo
• Hungarian: hullócsillag (hu)
• Icelandic: stjörnuhrap (is) n
• Indonesian: bintang jatuh
• Irish: réalta reatha f
• Italian: stella cadente (it) f, meteora (it) f, bolide (it) m
• Japanese: 流れ星 (ja) (ながれぼし, nagareboshi), 流星 (ja) (りゅうせい, ryūsei)
• Khmer: ទេពច្យុត (teipcyot)
• Korean: 유성(流星) (ko) (yuseong), 별똥 (byeolttong), 별똥별 (byeolttongbyeol)
• Kyrgyz: метеор (ky) (meteor)
• Malay: bintang beralih, tahi bintang (ms), cirit bintang
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: esqotewit anim
• Mi'kmaq: pugtewit anim
• Mongolian: харвасан од (xarvasan od), харвах од (xarvax od)
• Navajo: sǫʼ ndaajeehí, sǫʼ yilwoł
• Norman: êtaile tchiyante f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stjerneskudd n, stjerneskott n

• Occitan: estela casenta f, estela-que-tomba f, estela cadenta f
• Ojibwe: anang-bangishin
• Old Tupi: îasytatabebé
• Persian: شهاب (fa) (šahâb), شخانه (fa) (šaxâne)
• Polish: spadająca gwiazda (pl) f
• Portuguese: estrela cadente (pt) f
• Romanian: stea căzătoare (ro) f
• Russian: (lit.: falling star) па́дающая звезда́ (ru) f (pádajuščaja zvezdá)
• Rwanda-Rundi: (lit.: (only) one sees it) kibonumwe, kibona umwe
• Slovak: padajúca hviezda f
• Slovene: utrinek m
• Spanish: estrella fugaz
• Swahili: kimondo (sw)
• Swedish: stjärnfall (sv) n, fallande stjärna c
• Tagalog: bulalakaw
• Thai: ผีพุ่งไต้ (th) (pǐi-pûng-dtâai), ดาวตก (th) (daao-dtòk)
• Tibetan: སྐར་མདའ (skar mda')
• Turkish: kayan yıldız
• Ukrainian: па́даюча зі́рка f (pádajuča zírka)
• Urdu: ٹُوٹا تارَہ m (ṭūṭā tāra), شَہابِ ثاقِب m (śahāb-e s̱āqib) (formally)
• Welsh: seren wib f, seren llosgi

flowering plant

• Bulgarian: вирджински жиросел m (virdžinski žirosel)
• Dutch: twaalfgodenkruid
• Finnish: jumaltenkukka (fi)

See also

• comet
• meteorite

Further reading

• shooting star on Wikipedia.Wikipedia