shooting star

English

shooting star (meteor)

shooting star (Dodecatheon clevelandii)

Alternative forms

(the plant): shootingstar

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

Synonyms

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

Translations

meteor

Arabic: شِهَاب‎‎ m (šihāb)
Armenian: ասուպ (hy) (asup)
Belarusian: па́даючая зо́рка f (pádajučaja zórka)
Breton: steredenn-lostek
Catalan: estel fugaç
Chinese:
Mandarin: 流星 (zh) (liúxīng), 隕星 (zh), 陨星 (zh) (yǔnxīng)
Czech: padající hvězda f
Danish: stjerneskud n
Dutch: vallende ster m, f
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
Japanese: 流れ星 (ながれぼし, nagareboshi), 流星 (ja) (りゅうせい, ryūsei)

Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 유성 (ko) (yuseong) (流星 (ko)), 별똥 (byeolttong), 별똥별 (byeolttongbyeol)
Kyrgyz: метеор (ky) (meteor)
Malay: bintang beralih, tahi bintang, cirit bintang
Mongolian: харвасан од (harvasan od), харвах од (harvah od)
Navajo: sǫʼ ndaajeehí, sǫʼ yilwoł
Norman: êtaile tchiyante f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stjerneskudd n, stjerneskott n
Ojibwe: anang-bangishin
Polish: spadająca gwiazda f
Portuguese: estrela cadente (pt) f
Romanian: stea căzătoare (ro) f
Russian: (lit.: falling star) па́дающая звезда́ (ru) f (pádajuščaja zvezdá)
Slovak: padajúca hviezda f
Slovene: utrinek m
Spanish: estrella fugaz
Swedish: fallande stjärna c, stjärnfall n
Tagalog: bulalakaw
Thai: ผีพุ่งใต้ (pĕe pûng dtâi), ดาวตก (daao-dtòk)
Tibetan: སྐར་མདའ (skar mda')
Turkish: kayan yıldız
Ukrainian: па́даюча зі́рка f (pádajuča zírka)
Welsh: seren wib f, seren llosgi

flowering plant

Dutch: twaalfgodenkruid

Finnish: jumaltenkukka (fi)

See also

Further reading

shooting star on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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