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Quasar

Quasar

See also: quasar and quásar

German

Noun

Quasar m ‎(genitive Quasars, plural Quasare)

quasar

quasar

quasar

See also: Quasar and quásar

English

Noun

quasar ‎(plural quasars)

(astronomy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.

Synonyms

Q
QSO, quasi-stellar object
(dated) QSR, quasi-stellar radio-source
(obsolete) QSS, quasi-stellar source
(obsolete) BSO, blue stellar object

Derived terms

microquasar

Translations

An extragalactic object

Arabic: نَجْم زَائِف m ‎(najm zāʾif), شَبِيه اَلنَّجْم m ‎(šabīh an-najm)
Egyptian Arabic: كوازار m ‎(kwazaar), شبيه نجم m ‎(šebh negm)
Armenian: քվազար ‎(kʿvazar)
Basque: quasar (eu)
Belarusian: квазар m ‎(kvazár)
Bulgarian: квазар m ‎(kvazár)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 類星體 (zh), 类星体 (zh) ‎(lèixīngtǐ), 似星體, 似星体 ‎(sìxīngtǐ)
Czech: kvazar m, kvasar m
Danish: kvasar c
Esperanto: kvazaro
Finnish: kvasaari (fi)
French: quasar (fr) m
German: Quasar (de) m
Greek: κβάζαρ (el) n ‎(kvázar)
Hebrew: קוואזר
Hindi: कैसर (hi) ‎(kaisar)
Ido: quazaro (io)

Irish: cuasár m
Italian: quasar (it) m, f
Japanese: クエーサー ‎(kuēsā), 準星 ‎(じゅんせい, junsei)
Korean: 퀘이사 (ko) ‎(kweisa), 준성 ‎(junseong)
Malay: kuasar
Norwegian: kvasar m
Polish: kwazar (pl) m
Portuguese: quasar m
Russian: кваза́р (ru) m ‎(kvazár)
Scottish Gaelic: cuasar m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: квазар m

Roman: kvazar (sh) m
Slovene: kvazar m
Spanish: cuásar (es) m
Swedish: kvasar (sv) c
Tagalog: digtalain
Ukrainian: квазар m ‎(kvazár)
Vietnamese: chuẩn tinh (vi)

See also

Portuguese

Noun

quasar m (plural quasares)

(astronomy) quasar (an extragalactic object)

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