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English shooting star (meteor) shooting star (Dodecatheon clevelandii)
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 Dodecatheon North America .
Synonym: shootingstar
The plant Primula meadia
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
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
See also
Further reading 
shooting star on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 