Pleiades

See also: pléiades, Plêiades, and Pléiades

English

Etymology

From Latin Pleiades, from Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes). In the astronomical sense, displaced Old English seofonstierre (literally “the seven stars”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈplaɪ.əˌdiːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpliː.əˌdiz/, /ˈpleɪ.əˌdiz/, /ˈplaɪ.əˌdiz/

Proper noun

Pleiades pl

Pleiades star cluster

1. (Greek mythology) The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
2. (astronomy) An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.

Synonyms

• Seven Sisters

Related terms

• Pleiad, Pleiadian

Translations

Greek mythology

• Asturian: Pléyades
• Basque: Pleiade
• Breton: Pleiadezed
• Bulgarian: Плеяди (Plejadi)
• Catalan: Plèiades
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普勒阿得斯 (Pǔlè'ādésī)

• Czech: Plejády
• Danish: Plejaderne
• Dutch: Pleiaden
• Esperanto: Plejadoj
• Estonian: Plejaadid
• Finnish: Plejadit (fi)
• French: Pléiades (fr) f pl
• German: Plejaden (de)
• Greek: Πλειάδες (el) (Pleiádes)

  Ancient Greek: Πλειάδες f pl (Pleiádes)

• Hebrew: פליאדות
• Hungarian: pleiaszok pl
• Italian: Pleiadi
• Japanese: プレイアデス (Pureiadesu)
• Lithuanian: Plejadės
• Luxembourgish: Pleiaden
• Maori: Matariki
• Norwegian: Pleiadene
• Polish: Plejady (pl)
• Portuguese: Plêiades (pt) f
• Russian: Плеяды (ru) (Plejady)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Плејаде

  Roman: Plejade (sh)

• Slovene: Plejade
• Spanish: Pléyades
• Thai: ไพลยาดีส (plaiyaadèet)
• Turkish: Ülker (tr)
• Ukrainian: Плеяди (Plejady)

astronomy

• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: الثُّرَيَّا f (aṯ-ṯurayyā)
• Aragonese: Crapetas
• Aramaic: ܟܺܝܡܳܐ
• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: ալաւունք (alawunkʻ)

• Avestan: 𐬞𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬈𐬥𐬌 (paoⁱriiaeni)
• Bashkir: Өлкәр (Ölkər)
• Bau Bidayuh: sikora
• Belarusian: Аб'ект Месье M45 (Abʺjekt Mjesʹje M45)
• Bulgarian: Плеяди (Plejadi)
• Catalan: Plèiades
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 昴宿星團／昴宿星团 (maau⁵ sau³ sing¹ tyun⁴), 七姊妹星團／七姊妹星团 (cat¹ zi² mui⁵ sing¹ tyun⁴), 昴宿團／昴宿团 (maau⁵ sau³ tyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 昴宿星團／昴宿星团 (zh) (Mǎoxiù xīngtuán), 七姊妹星團／七姊妹星团 (zh) (Qī Zǐmèi xīngtuán), 昴宿團／昴宿团 (Mǎoxiùtuán)

• Czech: Plejády, Kuřátka (cs)
• Danish: Plejaderne
• Dutch: Zevengesternte (nl)
• Esperanto: Plejadoj
• Estonian: Plejaadid
• Finnish: Seulaset (fi) pl, Plejadit (fi) pl
• French: Pléiades (fr) f pl
• Galician: Pléiades (gl) f pl, Setestrelo m
• Georgian: პლეადები (ṗleadebi), ხომლი (xomli)
• German: Plejaden (de) f pl, Siebengestirn (de) n
• Greek: Πλειάδες (el) f pl (Pleiádes)

  Ancient Greek: Πλειάδες f pl (Pleiádes)

• Hebrew: פליאדות, כִּימָה (he) (kimā)
• Hindi: कृत्तिका f (kŕttikā), सुरैया (hi) f (suraiyā)
• Hungarian: Plejádok, Fiastyúk (hu), Hetes (hu)
• Icelandic: Sjöstirnið, Sjöstjarnan f
• Ido: Pleyado
• Indonesian: Kartika, bintang tujuh (id), bintang suraya (id)
• Ingrian: Kärenki
• Italian: Pleiadi
• Japanese: 昴 (ja), スバル (Subaru), プレアデス星団 (Pureadesu seidan)
• K'iche: Motz
• Karok: ataynamtunvêech
• Kazakh: Үркер (Ürker)
• Khakas: Ӱлгер (Ülger)
• Khmer: ផ្កាយកូនមាន់ (phkaaykounmŏən)
• Korean: 플레이아데스성단 (Peulleiadeseu-seongdan)
• Kumyk: Уьлкер (Ülker)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پێروو (ckb) (pêrû)

  Northern Kurdish: pêvir (ku) f

• Lakota: tȟayámni
• Latin: Vergiliae f pl, Pleiades f pl
• Latvian: Plejādes, Sietiņš
• Lingala: Bangɔndɔ nsambo
• Lithuanian: Plejadės
• Lü: ᦡᦱᧁᦺᦂᧈᦓᦾᧉ (ḋaawk̇ay¹noay²)
• Luxembourgish: Plejaden
• Maasai: n-kábártak
• Malay: Bintang Tujuh, Bintang Kartika, Bintang Ketika, Bintang Puyuh, Bintang Suraya
• Maori: Matariki, te Tātai-o-Matariki, te Huihui-o-Matariki, Matariki
• Mokilese: joapwroa
• Nahuatl: Tiyānquiztli
• Nandi: koremerik
• Navajo: dilyéhé
• Norman: Pouochinniéthe f
• Norwegian: Pleiadene
• Occitan: pleiades f pl
• Ojibwe: Bagone-giizhig, madoodiswan
• Old English: seofonstierre n
• Old High German: sibunstirni n
• Old Norse: sjaustirni n
• Ossetian: Авд хойы (Avd xojy)
• Pashto: پرېوونې f (perwǔne)
• Persian: پروین (fa) (parvin), ثریا (fa) (sorayyâ), پروی (parvi)
• Polish: Plejady (pl)
• Portuguese: Plêiades (pt)
• Quechua: Unquy quyllurkuna
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: Pleiada, găinușă (ro) f, Cloșca cu Pui f
• Russian: Плея́ды (ru) f pl (Plejády)
• Sanskrit: ऋक्षा (sa) m pl (ṛkṣā), कृतिका f (kṛtikā)
• Scottish Gaelic: na Seachd-Reultan f pl, an Grioglachan m, an Seachdaran m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Плејаде, Влашићи m pl, Мессиер 45

  Roman: Plejade (sh), Vlašići m pl, Messier 45

• Slovak: Plejády
• Sotho: Selemela
• Soussian: Idaṣṭṭ
• Southern Altai: Ӱлкер (Ülker)
• Spanish: Pléyades
• Swahili: Kilimia, Thurea
• Swedish: Plejaderna (sv)
• Tagalog: Mapulon, Supot ni Hudas, Apulon
• Tamil: கார்த்திகை (ta) (kārttikai)
• Thai: กระจุกดาวลูกไก่ (grà-jùk daao lûuk-gài)
• Turkish: Ülker (tr)
• Ukrainian: Стожари (uk) (Stožary), Плея́ди f pl (Plejády), Кво́чка f (Kvóčka)
• Urdu: ثریا m (suraiyā)
• Uzbek: Hulkar
• Vietnamese: Tua Rua
• Yakut: Үргэл (Ürgel), сулус бөлөҕө (sulus bölöğö)

See also

• Hyades

Latin

Adjective

Plēiadēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of Plēias