shooting star

English

shooting star (meteor)

Alternative forms

• (Dodecatheon member): shootingstar

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

Synonyms

• (meteor): falling star, meteor

Translations

meteor

• Belarusian: падаючая зорка (be) (pádajučaja zórka) f
• Catalan: estel fugaç (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流星 (cmn) (liúxīng), 隕星 (cmn), 陨星 (cmn) (yǔnxīng)

• Czech: padající hvězda (cs) f
• Danish: stjerneskud (da) n
• Dutch: vallende ster (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: falstelo (eo)
• Finnish: tähdenlento (fi)
• French: étoile filante (fr) f
• Galician: estrela fugaz (gl) f
• Georgian: მოწყვეტილი ვარსკვლავი (ka) (mocqvetili varskvlavi)
• German: Sternschnuppe (de) f
• Greek: διάττοντας αστέρας (el) (diáttontas astéras) m
• Hungarian: hullócsillag (hu)
• Italian: stella cadente (it) f

• Japanese: 流れ星 (ja) (ながれぼし, nagareboshi), 流星 (ja) (りゅうせい, ryūsei)
• Jèrriais: êtaile tchiyante f
• Korean: 유성 (ko) (yuseong) (流星 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: метеор (ky) (meteor)
• Malay: bintang beralih (ms), tahi bintang (ms), cirit bintang (ms)
• Polish: spadająca gwiazda (pl) f
• Portuguese: estrela cadente (pt) f
• Romanian: stea căzătoare (ro) f
• Russian: (lit.: falling star) падающая звезда (ru) (pádajuščaja zvezdá) f
• Slovak: padajúca hviezda (sk) f
• Spanish: estrella fugaz (es)
• Swedish: fallande stjärna c, stjärnfall n
• Turkish: kayan yıldız (tr)
• Ukrainian: падаюча зірка (uk) (pádajuča zírka) f
• Welsh: seren wib (cy) f

flowering plant

See also

• comet
• meteorite

External links

• Shooting star on Wikipedia.Wikipedia