meteorite

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmiː.tɪ.ə.ɹaɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/
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• General-American: /-ɾi-/
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• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• CMU ARPABET: M IY1 T IY0 AO0 R AY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English meteor Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English meteorite From meteor + -ite.

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Arabic: حَجَر نَيْزَكِيّ (ḥajar nayzakiyy) — remains of a meteor
• Armenian: երկնաքար (erknakʻar) — remains of a meteor
• Armenian: մետեորիտ (meteorit) — remains of a meteor
• Asturian: meteoritu — remains of a meteor
• Azerbaijani: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Basque: meteorito — remains of a meteor
• Belarusian: метэары́т (mjetearýt) — remains of a meteor
• Belarusian: мэтэары́т (metearýt) — remains of a meteor
• Bengali: উল্কাপিণ্ড (ulkapinḍo) — remains of a meteor
• Bulgarian: метеори́т (meteorít) — remains of a meteor
• Burmese: ဥက္ကာခဲ (ukkahkai:) — remains of a meteor
• Catalan: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Chinese Mandarin: 隕石 /陨石 (yǔnshí) — remains of a meteor
• Cornish: men kowas — remains of a meteor
• Czech: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Danish: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Dutch: meteoriet — remains of a meteor
• Esperanto: meteorito — remains of a meteor
• Esperanto: aerolito — remains of a meteor
• Esperanto: meteorŝtono — remains of a meteor
• Esperanto: aerŝtono — remains of a meteor
• Estonian: meteoriit — remains of a meteor
• Finnish: meteoriitti — remains of a meteor
• French: météorite — remains of a meteor
• Galician: meteorito — remains of a meteor
• Georgian: მეტეორიტი (meṭeoriṭi) — remains of a meteor
• German: Meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Greek: μετεωρίτης (meteorítis) — remains of a meteor
• Hebrew: מֶטֶאוֹרִיט (meteorít) — remains of a meteor
• Hebrew: כּוֹכָב נוֹפֵל — remains of a meteor
• Hindi: उल्कापिंड (ulkāpiṇḍ) — remains of a meteor
• Hungarian: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Icelandic: loftsteinn — remains of a meteor
• Indonesian: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Irish: dreigít — remains of a meteor
• Italian: meteorite — remains of a meteor
• Japanese: 隕石 (inseki) — remains of a meteor
• Kazakh: метеорит (meteorit) — remains of a meteor
• Khmer: ឧក្កាបាត (ʼukkaabaat) — remains of a meteor
• Khmer: អាចម៍ផ្កាយ (ʼac phkaay) — remains of a meteor
• Korean: 운석 (unseok) — remains of a meteor
• Northern Kurdish: meteorît — remains of a meteor
• Kyrgyz: метеорит (meteorit) — remains of a meteor
• Lao: ອຸກກາບາດ (ʼuk kā bāt) — remains of a meteor
• Latvian: meteorīts — remains of a meteor
• Lithuanian: meteoritas — remains of a meteor
• Macedonian: метеорит (meteorit) — remains of a meteor
• Malay: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Maltese: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Māori: matakōkiri — remains of a meteor
• Māori: whatu kōkiri — remains of a meteor
• Mongolian: газарт унасан солир (gazart unasan solir) — remains of a meteor
• Mongolian: солирын чулуулаг (soliryn čuluulag) — remains of a meteor
• Nahuatl: cītlalmītl — remains of a meteor
• Norwegian Bokmål: meteoritt — remains of a meteor
• Occitan: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Iranian Persian: شَهابسَنْگ (šahâb-sang) — remains of a meteor
• Iranian Persian: سَنْگِ آسْمانی (sang-e âsmâni) — remains of a meteor
• Polish: meteoryt — remains of a meteor
• Portuguese: meteorito — remains of a meteor
• Punjabi: ਉਲਕਾ ਪਿੰਡ (ulakā piṇḍ) — remains of a meteor
• Quechua: pachakawri rumi — remains of a meteor
• Romanian: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Russian: метеори́т (meteorít) — remains of a meteor
• Scottish Gaelic: dreagag — remains of a meteor
• Serbo-Croatian: метео̀рӣт — remains of a meteor
• Serbo-Croatian: meteòrīt — remains of a meteor
• Sinhalese: උල්කාෂ්ම (ulkāṣma) — remains of a meteor
• Slovak: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Slovene: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Spanish: meteorito — remains of a meteor
• Swahili: jiwe la angani — remains of a meteor
• Swedish: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Tagalog: bulalato — remains of a meteor
• Tagalog: meteorita — remains of a meteor
• Tajik: шиҳобпора (šihobpora) — remains of a meteor
• Tajik: метеорит (meteorit) — remains of a meteor
• Tajik: шиҳобсанг (šihobsang) — remains of a meteor
• Tamil: விண்வீழ்கல் (viṇvīḻkal) — remains of a meteor
• Tamil: விண்கல் (viṇkal) — remains of a meteor
• Tamil: எரிகல் (erikal) — remains of a meteor
• Tatar: метеорит (meteorit) — remains of a meteor
• Thai: อุกกาบาต (ùk-gaa-bàat) — remains of a meteor
• Turkish: göktaşı — remains of a meteor
• Turkish: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Turkmen: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Ukrainian: метеори́т (meteorýt) — remains of a meteor
• Urdu: شِہابی پَتَّھر (śihābī patthar) — remains of a meteor
• Uyghur: مېتېئورىت (mëtë'orit) — remains of a meteor
• Uzbek: meteorit — remains of a meteor
• Vietnamese: thiên thạch — remains of a meteor
• Vietnamese: vẫn thạch — remains of a meteor
• Zazaki: meteorit — remains of a meteor