comet

Etymology
From, partly from and partly from , both from , from , short for ἀστὴρ κομήτης ([astēr] komētēs, "longhaired [star])" and referring to the tail of a comet, from. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
 * 2) A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
 * 3) Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
 * 1) Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
 * 1) Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

Usage notes

 * A comet whose volatile ices have completely evaporated is said to be dead or extinct.

Synonyms

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Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: مذنب
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: kometa
 * Bashkir: комета
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: каме́та
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: коме́та
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: комета
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 彗星, 掃把星
 * Hokkien:, , 彗星
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ގިނިހިލަ
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kometo
 * Estonian:, sabatäht
 * Fijian: kalokalo vaka-buina
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კომეტა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: ધૂમકેતુ, પૂંછડિયો તારો
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, केतुग्रह, पुच्छल तारा, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: cometa
 * Irish: cóiméad
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: комета
 * Khmer: ធូមកេតុ, ផ្កាយដុះកន្ទុយ
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: comētēs, stella crītīna
 * Latvian: komēta
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦡᦱᧁᦠᦱᧂ
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: коме́та
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: kometa
 * Maori: unahiroa, whetūrere
 * Marathi: धूमकेतू
 * Mi'kmaq: pugtewit
 * Mongolian: сүүлт од
 * Nandi: cheptapis
 * Navajo: sǫʼtsoh jóhonaaʼéí yináalwołígíí
 * Norman: conmète
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: komet
 * Nynorsk: komet
 * Okinawan: 箒星, 入り髪星
 * Ottoman Turkish: قویروقلو یلدز
 * Persian: دنباله‌دار
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: reul-chearbach, reul earballach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: комета
 * Roman:
 * Sindhi: پڇڙ تارو
 * Sinhalese: වල්ගාතරු
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Somali: ,
 * Southern Altai: куйрукту јылдыс
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: barikod, kometa, bandus
 * Tai Nüa: ᥘᥣᥝᥞᥣᥒᥴ
 * Tajik: комета, дунболадор
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: комета
 * Tày: đao hang
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tlingit: xoodzí
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: kometa
 * Ukrainian: коме́та
 * Urdu: کومٹ, دم دار تارا, دومکیت
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (𣋀𥶲)
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: komeet
 * Yiddish: קאָמעט
 * Yoruba: ìràwọ̀ onírù
 * Yup'ik: agyuliq
 * Zhuang: ndaundeiqsauqbaet
 * Zulu: inkanyezi enomsila