English
Shooting star (
Primula clevelandii;
sense 2)
Pronunciation
Noun
shooting star (plural shooting stars)
- 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
- Any of several wild flowering plants in the genus Primula (synonym Dodecatheon), mostly found in Western North America.
- Synonym: shootingstar
- The flowering plant Primula meadia (synonym Dodecatheon meadia).
- Synonyms: eastern shooting star, American cowslip, prairie pointers, roosterheads
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
- Hebrew: כּוֹכָב נוֹפֵל
- Hindi: उल्का (hi) m (ulkā)
- 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)
- Kankanaey: dusdusnug, takkin di talaw
- 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
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flowering plant
- Bulgarian: вирджински жиросел m (virdžinski žirosel)
- Dutch: twaalfgodenkruid n
- Finnish: jumaltenkukka (fi)
- Polish: bożykwiat m
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See also
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