galaxy

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From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).

123 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: yllplimje — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Albanian: galaktikë — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Arabic: مَجَرَّة (majarra) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Armenian: գալակտիկա (galaktika) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Armenian: ծիրկաթին (cirkatʻin) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Asturian: galaxa — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Azerbaijani: qalaktika — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Bashkir: галактика (galaktika) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Basque: galaxia — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Belarusian: гала́ктыка (haláktyka) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Bengali: ছায়াপথ (chaẏapoth) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Breton: galaksienn — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Bulgarian: гала́ктика (galáktika) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Burmese: ဂယ်လက်ဆီ (gailakhci) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Buryat: галактика (galaktika) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Catalan: galàxia — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Chichewa: chilimira — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Chichewa: chipulausiku — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Chichewa: gwalalanjovu — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Chichewa: mbalang'amba — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Chichewa: mdezung'amba — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Chichewa: mlerang'amba — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Chinese Mandarin: 恆星系 /恒星系 (héngxīngxì) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Chinese Mandarin: 群星 (qúnxīng) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Chinese Mandarin: 星系 (xīngxì) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Cornish: galaksi — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Czech: galaxie — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Danish: galakse — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Dutch: sterrenstelsel — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Esperanto: galaksio — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Estonian: galaktika — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Faroese: stjørnubreyt — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Finnish: galaksi — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Finnish: tähtikunta — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• French: galaxie — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Friulian: galassie — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Galician: galaxia — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Georgian: გალაქტიკა (galakṭiḳa) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• German: Galaxie — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• German: Galaxis — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• German: Welteninsel — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Greek: γαλαξίας (galaxías) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Hebrew: גָּלַקְסְיָה (galáksia) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Hindi: मंदाकिनी (mandākinī) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Hungarian: galaxis — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Hungarian: csillagváros — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Icelandic: stjörnuþoka — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Icelandic: vetrarbraut — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Ido: galaxio — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Indonesian: galaksi — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Ingush: гӏалактик (ğalaktik) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Interlingua: galaxia — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Irish: réaltra — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Italian: galassia — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Japanese: 銀河 (ginga) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Japanese: 銀河系 (gingakei) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Japanese: 星雲 (seiun) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Javanese: galaksi — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Javanese: ꦒꦭꦏ꧀ꦱꦶ (galaksi) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Kazakh: галактика (galaktika) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Khmer: តារាវលី (taaraavĕəʼlii) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Khmer: ចក្ររាសី (cakkraʼ riəsəy) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Khmer: កាឡាក់ស៊ី (kaalaksii) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Korean: 은하 (eunha) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Korean: 은하계 (eunhagye) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Kyrgyz: галактика (galaktika) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Lao: ກາເລັກຊີ (kā lek sī) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Latin: galaxias — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Latvian: galaktika — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Lithuanian: galaktika — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Macedonian: галаксија (galaksija) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Malay: galaksi — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Malay: cakerawala — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Maltese: galassja — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Manx: ard-chruinnaght — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Marathi: दीर्घिका (dīrghikā) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Marathi: तारामंडळ (tārāmaṇḍaḷ) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Mongolian: галактик (galaktik) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Navajo: sǫʼ dah shijaaʼ — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Navajo: yáʼąąh honíkáán — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Norman: galaxie — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Norwegian: galakse — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Pashto: کهکشان (kahkašãn) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Persian: کهکشان (kahkašân) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭠𐭮 𐭩 𐭪𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭮𐭠𐭭𐭩 (rāh ī kāyōsān) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Polish: galaktyka — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Portuguese: galáxia — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Romanian: galaxie — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Romansh: galaxia — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Russian: гала́ктика (galáktika) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Sanskrit: आकाशगङ्गा (ākāśagaṅgā) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Sanskrit: मन्दाकिनी (mandākinī) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Scottish Gaelic: Slighe Chlann Uisnich — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Serbo-Croatian: гала̀ксија — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Serbo-Croatian: galàksija — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Sinhalese: මන්දාකිණි (mandākiṇi) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Slovak: galaxia — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Slovene: galaksija — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Spanish: galaxia — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Sundanese: galaksi — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Swahili: galaksi — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Swedish: galax — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Tagalog: galaksiya — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Tagalog: sanlibutan — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Tajik: галактика (galaktika) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Tajik: каҳкашон (kahkašon) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Tatar: галактика (ğalaqtiqa) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Thai: ดาราจักร (daa-raa-jàk) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Thai: กาแล็กซี (gaa-lɛ́k-sîi) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Tumbuka: mlalang'amba — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Tumbuka: mlambagombe — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Turkish: galaksi — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Turkish: gök ada — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Turkmen: galaktika — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Ukrainian: гала́ктика (haláktyka) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Urdu: کہکشاں (kahkaśā̃) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Uyghur: گالاكتىكا (galaktika) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Uzbek: galaktika — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Vietnamese: thiên hà — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Volapük: galaxid — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Volapük: galaxüt — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Welsh: galaeth — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc
• Yiddish: גאַלאַקטיק (galaktik) — collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc