From evening + star. Cf. Old English ǣfensteorra.
the evening star
- (astronomy) The planet Venus as seen in the western sky in the evening.
- Synonyms: Hesperus, (rare) evenstar
- We now know that the evening star is the morning star – that is, Hesperus is Phosphorus.
planet Venus seen in the evening
- Albanian: yll i mbrëmjes m (indefinite), ylli i mbrëmjes m (definite)
- Arabic: نَجْمَة الْمَسَاء f (najma(t) al-masāʔ)
- Bulgarian: вечерница f (večernica)
- Chinese: 長庚／长庚 (zh) (chánggēng)
- Czech: večernice (cs) f
- Dutch: avondster (nl) f
- Esperanto: vesperstelo
- Finnish: iltatähti (fi)
- French: étoile du soir (fr) f
- Galician: estrela da tarde f, luceiro da tarde m, estrela da fartura f
- German: Abendstern (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἕσπερος ἀστήρ (hésperos astḗr)
- Hungarian: esthajnalcsillag (hu)
- Italian: stella della sera f, vespero (it) m
- Japanese: 宵の明星 (ja) (yoi no myōjō), ゆふづつ (ja) (yufudzutsu) (ancient)
- Karok: ikxuraráhaan, ikxunanáhaanich
- Korean: 개밥바라기 (gaebapbaragi), 태백성 (ko) (taebaekseong)
- Latin: vesperūgō f, Hesperus m
- Latvian: vakara zvaigzne f
- Lithuanian: vakarìnė žvaigždė̃ f, vãkaro žvaigždė̃ f
- Macedonian: Вече́рница f (Večérnica), вече́рница f (večérnica)
- Maori: Rangitūahiahi, Meremere, Meremere-tū-ahiahi
- Navajo: sǫʼtsoh, sǫʼtsoh łigaii
- Old English: æfensteorra m
- Old Saxon: āvandsterro
- Polish: Gwiazda Wieczorna (pl) f, gwiazda wieczorna f
- Portuguese: estrela da tarde f, estrela d'alva (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਸ਼ਾਮ ਦਾ ਤਾਰਾ m (śām dā tārā), ਸ਼ੁੱਕਰ m (śukkar)
- Romanian: luceafărul-de-seară f
- Russian: вече́рняя звезда́ f (večérnjaja zvezdá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Вечерница f, Вечерња звијезда f
- Roman: Večernica f, Večernja zvijezda f
- Slovak: večernica f
- Spanish: estrella de la tarde f, lucero de la tarde m
- Swedish: aftonstjärna (sv) c
- Thai: ดาวประจำเมือง (daao-bprà-jam-mʉʉang)
- Turkish: Akşam Yıldızı (tr)
- Ukrainian: вечі́рня зі́рка f (večírnja zírka)
- Vietnamese: sao Hôm (vi)
- Yiddish: אָוונטשטערן m (ovntshtern)
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evening star (plural evening stars)
- Any star seen in the evening, especially the planets Mercury and Jupiter.
- Synonym: (planet Mercury) Hermes
- Antonyms: morning star, Apollo
- An evening primrose (Oenothera biennis).
Oenothera biennis
- Mentzelia pumila (dwarf mentzelia) and other species of genus Mentzelia.
