shooting star

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, (rare) faxed star, meteor

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

   Synonym: shootingstar

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) 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 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 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) (šahāb), شخانه‎ (fa) (šaxāne) 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) 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