sputnik

Etymology
From, from + , from  + agent suffix.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
 * 2)  Any artificial satellite.
 * 3) * 1958, Clinton P. Anderson, statement on the Senate floor, quoted in, Legislative history: Saline water conversion act, page 783
 * With this program, we could bring water to the Middle East. We could rebuild some of our sagging esteem in that part of the world; we could insure that in this area at least we would have our sputniks abreast the Russians', and we could do our own economy a priceless good turn.
 * 1) * 1958 October 23, Gemnius, "It seems to me", New Scientist, page 1120
 * This is but one of the facts which should demonstrate to those who would build British sputniks that such extravagances will be a disservice to the whole country until the supply of scientists has been multiplied many times.
 * This is but one of the facts which should demonstrate to those who would build British sputniks that such extravagances will be a disservice to the whole country until the supply of scientists has been multiplied many times.

Translations

 * Albanian: sputnik
 * Amharic: ስፐትኒክ
 * Arabic: سْبُوتْنِيك, سْبُوتْنِيك
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: sputnik
 * Bashkir: спутник
 * Belarusian:, спу́тнік
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, спу́тник
 * Burmese: စပွတ်နစ်
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 史撥尼克
 * Mandarin: 斯普特尼克, 人造地球衛星
 * Czech: sputnik
 * Danish: sputnik
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: sputnik
 * Finnish: sputnik
 * French:
 * Galician: sputnik
 * Georgian: სპუტნიკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סְפּוּטְנִיק
 * Hindi: स्पुटनिक, स्पुतनिक
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: spútnik
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: スプートニク
 * Kannada: ಸ್ಪುಟ್ನಿಕ್
 * Kazakh: спутник
 * Khmer: ស្ពុតនីក
 * Korean: 스푸트니크
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: spûtnîk
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: sputņiks
 * Lithuanian: sputnikas
 * Macedonian: спу́тник
 * Malay: sputnik
 * Malayalam: സ്പുട്നിക്
 * Mongolian: спутник
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sputnik
 * Pashto: سپوتنیک
 * Persian: سپوتنیک, اسپوتنیک
 * Polish:, , sztuczny satelita
 * Portuguese: sputnik,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: спутњик
 * Roman: sputnjik
 * Sinhalese: ස්පුට්නික්
 * Slovak: sputnik
 * Slovene: sputnik
 * Spanish: sputnik
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sputnik
 * Tajik: спутник
 * Tamil: ஸ்புட்னிக்
 * Tatar: спутник
 * Telugu: స్పుత్నిక్
 * Thai: สปุตนิก
 * Turkish: sputnik
 * Turkmen: sputnik
 * Ukrainian:, спу́тнік
 * Urdu: سپوتنک, اسپتنک
 * Uyghur: سپۇتنىك
 * Uzbek: sputnik
 * Vietnamese: vệ tinh nhân tạo, xpút-nhích
 * Yiddish: ספּוטניק

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  a Soviet robotic space satellite