quasar

See also: Quasar and quásar

WOTD – 12 May 2009

English

Etymology

Blend of quasi- +‎ stellar, from quasi-stellar radio source.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkweɪ.zɑː/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈkweɪ.zɑɹ/
Audio (US) (file)

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)
Catalan: quàsar m
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 or f
Japanese: クエーサー (kuēsā), 準星 (じゅんせい, junsei)
Korean: 퀘이사 (ko) (kweisa), 준성 (ko) (junseong)
Malay: kuasar
Norwegian: kvasar m
Persian: اختروش‎ (fa) (axtarvaš)
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

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English quasar

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kwa.zaʁ/, /ka.zaʁ/

Noun

quasar m (plural quasars)

quasar

References

“quasar” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

quasar m (plural quasares)

(astronomy) quasar (an extragalactic object)

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