meteor

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtɪ.ə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtɪɔː/
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• US: /ˈmiːtiɚ/
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• US: [ˈmiːɾiɚ]
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• US: /ˈmiːtioɹ/
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• homophone: meatier
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• CMU ARPABET: M IY1 T IY0 ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French météore, from Old French, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron), from μετέωρος (metéōros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from μετά (metá, “in the midst of, among, between”) (English meta) + ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”). The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to meteorology, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere.

129 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: meteor — streak of light
• Arabic: شِهَاب (šihāb) — streak of light
• Armenian: ասուպ (asup) — streak of light
• Assamese: পপীয়া তৰা (popia tora) — streak of light
• Assamese: উল্কা (ulka) — streak of light
• Asturian: meteoru — streak of light
• Azerbaijani: meteor — streak of light
• Azerbaijani: axan ulduz — streak of light
• Basque: meteoro — streak of light
• Belarusian: метэо́р (mjeteór) — streak of light
• Belarusian: мэтэо́р (meteór) — streak of light
• Bengali: উল্কা (ulka) — streak of light
• Bulgarian: метео́р (meteór) — streak of light
• Burmese: ဥက္ကာ (ukka) — streak of light
• Burmese: ဥပါကြယ် (u.pa-krai) — streak of light
• Carpathian Rusyn: метео́р (meteór) — streak of light
• Catalan: meteor — streak of light
• Chinese Cantonese: 流星 — streak of light
• Chinese: 流星 (zh-min-nan) — streak of light
• Chinese Mandarin: 流星 (liúxīng) — streak of light
• Cornish: steren-leski — streak of light
• Cornish: steren-wibya — streak of light
• Czech: meteor — streak of light
• Czech: povětroň — streak of light
• Czech: létavice — streak of light
• Danish: meteor — streak of light
• Dutch: meteoor — streak of light
• Dutch: vallende ster — streak of light
• Esperanto: meteoro — streak of light
• Estonian: meteoor — streak of light
• Finnish: meteori — streak of light
• Finnish: tähdenlento — streak of light
• French: météore — streak of light
• Galician: meteoro — streak of light
• Georgian: მეტეორი (meṭeori) — streak of light
• German: Meteor — streak of light
• Greek: μετέωρο (metéoro) — streak of light
• Hawaiian: akua lele — streak of light
• Hawaiian: hōkū lele — streak of light
• Hawaiian: koli — streak of light
• Hebrew: מֶטֶאוֹר (meteór) — streak of light
• Hindi: उल्का (ulkā) — streak of light
• Hungarian: hullócsillag — streak of light
• Hungarian: meteor — streak of light
• Icelandic: stjörnuhrap — streak of light
• Indonesian: meteor — streak of light
• Irish: dreige — streak of light
• Irish: meitéar — streak of light
• Italian: meteora — streak of light
• Japanese: 流星 (ryūsei) — streak of light
• Japanese: 流れ星 (nagareboshi) — streak of light
• Kabwa: ekimondo class 7 — streak of light
• Kazakh: метеор (meteor) — streak of light
• Khmer: អាកាសបាតុភូត (ʼaakaasaʼpaatophuut) — streak of light
• Khmer: កេតុ (kaet) — streak of light
• Korean: 유성 (yuseong) — streak of light
• Korean: 류성 (ryuseong) — streak of light
• Kyrgyz: метеор (meteor) — streak of light
• Lao: ດາວຕົກ (dāo tok) — streak of light
• Lao: ອຸກກາ (ʼuk kā) — streak of light
• Lao: ທຸມະເກດ (thu ma kēt) — streak of light
• Latin: meteōrum — streak of light
• Latvian: meteors — streak of light
• Lithuanian: meteoras — streak of light
• Macedonian: метеор (meteor) — streak of light
• Malay: meteor — streak of light
• Malay: tahi bintang — streak of light
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: esqotewit — streak of light
• Maltese: meteora — streak of light
• Manchu: ᡝᠶᡝᡵᡝ ᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠ (eyere usiha) — streak of light
• Māori: kōkiri — streak of light
• Māori: matakōkiri — streak of light
• Māori: tūmatakōkiri — streak of light
• Māori: kōtiri — streak of light
• Māori: kōtiritiri — streak of light
• Mi'kmaq: pugtewit — streak of light
• Mongolian: солир (solir) — streak of light
• Navajo: sǫʼ nanidéhígíí — streak of light
• Navajo: sǫʼ náádiilwoʼígíí — streak of light
• Norwegian Bokmål: meteor — streak of light
• Occitan: meteòr — streak of light
• Pali: ukkā — streak of light
• Pannonian Rusyn: метеор (meteor) — streak of light
• Pashto: اسماني تيږه (asmānítíẓa) — streak of light
• Pashto: شهاب (šahãb) — streak of light
• Iranian Persian: شَهاب (šahâb) — streak of light
• Iranian Persian: شَخانِه (šaxâne) — streak of light
• Iranian Persian: نِیْزَک (neyzak) — streak of light
• Polish: meteor — streak of light
• Polish: spadająca gwiazda — streak of light
• Portuguese: meteoro — streak of light
• Punjabi: ਉਲਕਾ (ulakā) — streak of light
• Punjabi: ਕੇਤੂ (ketū) — streak of light
• Romanian: meteor — streak of light
• Russian: метео́р (meteór) — streak of light
• Rwanda-Rundi: kibonumwe — streak of light
• Rwanda-Rundi: kibona umwe — streak of light
• Sanskrit: उल्का (ulkā) — streak of light
• Scottish Gaelic: dreag — streak of light
• Serbo-Croatian: метѐо̄р — streak of light
• Serbo-Croatian: metèōr — streak of light
• Sicilian: mitèuru — streak of light
• Slovak: meteor — streak of light
• Slovene: meteor — streak of light
• Spanish: meteoro — streak of light
• Swahili: kimondo — streak of light
• Swedish: meteor — streak of light
• Tagalog: bulalakaw — streak of light
• Tagalog: taeng-bituin — streak of light
• Tajik: метеор (meteor) — streak of light
• Tajik: шиҳоб (šihob) — streak of light
• Telugu: ఉల్క (ulka) — streak of light
• Thai: ดาวตก (daao-dtòk) — streak of light
• Thai: อุกกาบาต (ùk-gaa-bàat) — streak of light
• Thai: กลาบาต (gà-laa-bàat) — streak of light
• Turkish: meteor — streak of light
• Turkish: şahap — streak of light
• Ottoman Turkish: شهاب (şehab, şihab) — streak of light
• Turkmen: meteor — streak of light
• Ukrainian: метео́р (meteór) — streak of light
• Urdu: اُلْکا (ulkā) — streak of light
• Urdu: شِہابِیَّہ (śihābiyya) — streak of light
• Urdu: شِہاب (śihāb) — streak of light
• Uyghur: ئاقار يۇلتۇز (aqar yultuz) — streak of light
• Uyghur: مېتېئور (mëtë'or) — streak of light
• Uzbek: meteor — streak of light
• Vietnamese: sao băng — streak of light
• Welsh: seren wib — streak of light
• Yiddish: מעטעאָר (meteor) — streak of light