quasar

quasar

See also: Quasar and quásar

English

WOTD – 12 May 2009

Etymology

Blend of quasi- +‎ stellar, from quasi-stellar radio source. Coined by American astrophysicist Hong-Yee Chiu in 1964 in an article in Physics Today. Analyzable as quasi- +‎ -ar

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkweɪ.zɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkweɪ.zɑɹ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪzɑː(ɹ)

Noun

quasar (plural quasars)

1. (astronomy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.

Synonyms

• Q
• QSO
• quasi-stellar object
• quasistellar object

 

dated

• QSR
• quasi-stellar radio source
• quasistellar radio-source
• quasi-stellar radio-source
• quasistellar radio source

 

obsolete

• blue stellar object
• BSO
• QSS
• quasi-stellar source
• quasistellar source

 

Hyponyms

• blazar
• BL Lac
• BL Lac object
• OVV
• OVV quasar
• quasar 1
• quasar 2
• quasar I
• quasar II

 

Derived terms

• microquasar

 

Related terms

• -ar
• quasi-
• quasistar
• quasi-star
• quasistellar
• quasi-stellar

 

Translations

An extragalactic object

Arabic: نَجْم زَائِف‎ m (najm zāʾif), شَبِيه اَلنَّجْم‎ m (šabīh an-najm) Egyptian Arabic: كوازار‎ m (kwazār), شبيه نجم‎ m (šēbh negm) Armenian: քվազար (kʿvazar) Basque: quasar (eu) Belarusian: кваза́р m (kvazár) Bulgarian: кваза́р m (kvazár) Catalan: quàsar m Chinese: Mandarin: 類星體／类星体 (zh) (lèixīngtǐ), 似星體／似星体 (sìxīngtǐ) Czech: kvazar m, kvasar m Danish: kvasar c Esperanto: kvazaro Finnish: kvasaari (fi) French: quasar (fr) m German: Quasar (de) m Greek: κβάζαρ (el) n (kvázar) Hebrew: קוואזר‎ Hindi: कैसर (hi) (kaisar) Ido: quazaro (io) Indonesian: kuasar (id) Irish: cuasár m Italian: quasar (it) m or f Japanese: クエーサー (kuēsā), 準星 (じゅんせい, junsei) Korean: 퀘이사 (ko) (kweisa), 준성 (ko) (junseong) Malay: kuasar Norwegian: kvasar m Persian: اختروش‎ (fa) (axtarvaš) Polish: kwazar (pl) m Portuguese: quasar m Russian: кваза́р (ru) m (kvazár) Scottish Gaelic: cuasar m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: квазар m Roman: kvazar (sh) m Slovene: kvazar m Spanish: cuásar (es) m Swedish: kvasar (sv) c Tagalog: digtalain Turkish: kuasar Ukrainian: кваза́р m (kvazár) Vietnamese: chuẩn tinh (vi)

See also

• AGN, active galactic nucleus
• active galaxy
• pulsar
• RIQ, RLQ, RQQ

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English quasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwa.zaʁ/, /ka.zaʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

quasar m (plural quasars)

1. quasar

Further reading

• “quasar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kwaˈzaʁ/ [kwaˈzah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kwaˈzaʁ/ [kwaˈzah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kwaˈzaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kwaˈzaʁ/ [kwaˈzaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kwaˈzaɻ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kwaˈzaɾ/

Noun

quasar m (plural quasares)

1. (astronomy) quasar (an extragalactic object)

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Romanian

Etymology

From English quasar.

Noun

quasar m (plural quasari)

1. quasar

Declension

Declension of quasar

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) quasar	quasarul	(niște) quasari	quasarii
genitive/dative	(unui) quasar	quasarului	(unor) quasari	quasarilor
vocative	quasarule		quasarilor