nebula

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• nĕb′yə-lə
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland: /ˈnɛb.jə.lə/
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland, also: /ˈnɛb.jʌ.lʌ/
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• Australian, New-Zealand, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈneb.jə.lə/
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• India: /ˈnɛ(ː)b.ju.la/
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• rhymes with -ɛbjələ
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• CMU ARPABET: N EH1 B Y AH0 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). First attested in 1655. Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”), Russian не́бо (nébo, “sky”).

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: nebulozë — a space cloud
• Albanian: mjegullnajë — a space cloud
• Arabic: سَدِيم (sadīm) — a space cloud
• Arabic: سديم (sadīm) — a space cloud
• Armenian: միգամածություն (migamacutʻyun) — a space cloud
• Azerbaijani: dumanlıq — a space cloud
• Basque: nebulosa — a space cloud
• Belarusian: тума́ннасць (tumánnascʹ) — a space cloud
• Bengali: নীহারিকা (niharika) — a space cloud
• Bulgarian: мъглявина́ (mǎgljaviná) — a space cloud
• Burmese: နက်ဗျူလာ (nakbyula) — a space cloud
• Catalan: nebulosa — a space cloud
• Chinese Cantonese: 星雲 /星云 — a space cloud
• Chinese Mandarin: 星雲 /星云 (xīngyún) — a space cloud
• Cornish: niwlen ster — a space cloud
• Czech: mlhovina — a space cloud
• Danish: stjernetåge — a space cloud
• Dutch: nevelvlek — a space cloud
• Dutch: nevel — a space cloud
• Esperanto: nebulozo — a space cloud
• Estonian: udukogu — a space cloud
• Estonian: udu — a space cloud
• Faroese: stjørnutoka — a space cloud
• Finnish: kaasusumu — a space cloud
• Finnish: tähtisumu — a space cloud
• Finnish: nebula — a space cloud
• French: nébuleuse — a space cloud
• Galician: nebulosa — a space cloud
• Georgian: ნისლეული (nisleuli) — a space cloud
• German: Nebel — a space cloud
• German: Wolke — a space cloud
• Greek: νεφέλωμα (neféloma) — a space cloud
• Ancient Greek: νεφέλιον (nephélion) — a space cloud
• Gujarati: નિહારિકા (nihārikā) — a space cloud
• Gujarati: નેબ્યુલા (nebyulā) — a space cloud
• Hebrew: עַרְפִלִּית — a space cloud
• Hebrew: ערפילית (arpilit) — a space cloud
• Hindi: निहारिका (nihārikā) — a space cloud
• Hindi: नीहारिका (nīhārikā) — a space cloud
• Hungarian: csillagköd — a space cloud
• Hungarian: nebula — a space cloud
• Icelandic: stjörnuþoka — a space cloud
• Ido: nebulozo — a space cloud
• Indonesian: nebula — a space cloud
• Interlingua: nebulosa — a space cloud
• Irish: réaltnéal — a space cloud
• Italian: nebulosa — a space cloud
• Japanese: 星雲 (seiun) — a space cloud
• Kannada: ನೀಹಾರಿಕೆ (nīhārike) — a space cloud
• Kazakh: тұмандық (tūmandyq) — a space cloud
• Khmer: នេប៊ូឡា (neibuulaa) — a space cloud
• Khmer: ណេប៊ុយឡា (neebuylaa) — a space cloud
• Korean: 성운 (seong'un) — a space cloud
• Northern Kurdish: nebuloz — a space cloud
• Kyrgyz: тумандуулук (tumanduuluk) — a space cloud
• Latin: nebula — a space cloud
• Latvian: miglājs — a space cloud
• Lithuanian: ū̃kas — a space cloud
• Luxembourgish: Niwwel — a space cloud
• Macedonian: маглина (maglina) — a space cloud
• Malay: nebula — a space cloud
• Malayalam: നീഹാരിക (nīhārika) — a space cloud
• Māori: puehu tuarangi — a space cloud
• Mongolian: мананцар (manancar) — a space cloud
• Norwegian Bokmål: stjernetåke — a space cloud
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stjernetåke — a space cloud
• Persian: سحابی (sahâbi) — a space cloud
• Persian: میغواره (miġ-vâre) — a space cloud
• Polish: mgławica — a space cloud
• Portuguese: nebulosa — a space cloud
• Portuguese: nébula — a space cloud
• Romanian: nebuloasă — a space cloud
• Russian: тума́нность (tumánnostʹ) — a space cloud
• Rwanda-Rundi: inyenyeri — a space cloud
• Serbo-Croatian: ма̀глина — a space cloud
• Serbo-Croatian: ма̀глица — a space cloud
• Serbo-Croatian: màglina — a space cloud
• Serbo-Croatian: màglica — a space cloud
• Slovak: hmlovina — a space cloud
• Slovene: meglíca — a space cloud
• Slovene: nébula — a space cloud
• Spanish: nebulosa — a space cloud
• Spanish: nébula — a space cloud
• Swedish: nebulosa — a space cloud
• Tagalog: bigha — a space cloud
• Tagalog: ulanag — a space cloud
• Tagalog: nebula — a space cloud
• Tajik: меғвора (meġvora) — a space cloud
• Tajik: туманот (tumanot) — a space cloud
• Tamil: நெபுலா (nepulā) — a space cloud
• Thai: เนบิวลา (nee-biu-lâa) — a space cloud
• Turkish: nebula — a space cloud
• Turkmen: dumanlyk — a space cloud
• Ukrainian: тума́нність (tumánnistʹ) — a space cloud
• Urdu: صَحابِیَہ (sahābiya) — a space cloud
• Urdu: سَدِیم (sadīm) — a space cloud
• Uzbek: tumanlik — a space cloud
• Vietnamese: tinh vân — a space cloud
• Volapük: silefog — a space cloud
• Welsh: nifiwl — a space cloud
• Zhuang: fwjndaundeiq — a space cloud