# UFO
## English
### Etymology

Abbreviations.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌjuːɛfˈəʊ/, /ˈjuːfəʊ̯/
* (US) IPA: /ˌjuˌɛfˈoʊ/, /ˈjufoʊ̯/, /ˈʌfoʊ̯/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊ, -uːfəʊ

### Noun

UFO (plural UFOs)
* Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft. [from 20th c.]
** 1967, Brad Steiger, Joan Whritenour, “Someone Up There May Not Like Us”, in Flying Saucers Are Hostile‎, Tandem Publishing, published 1975, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:After the case had been reported in the newspapers, Mrs. Gracindo de Souza, wife of a member of the local stock exchange, told police that she and her daughter had been driving down Alameda Sao Boaventura when they had seen an UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.
** 2004, George Carlin, “THEY CAME FROM OUT OF THE SKY”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed—and, by the way, unexplained—sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.
* (colloquial) An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft. [from 20th c.]
** 2007, Kerry Wills, The Close-knit Circle: American Knitters Today, page 107:UFOs differ from WIPs in that a WIP is a project one is actively pursuing, while a UFO runs the risk of never getting finished.
* (astronomy) Initialism of ultrared flattened object. [2022]

#### Synonyms

* UAP

#### Derived terms

* UFOer
* ufologist
* ufology
* UFO nest
* UFO peach
* UFO religion

#### Related terms

* USO

#### Descendants

* → Czech: UFO
* → Dutch: ufo
* → Estonian: UFO
* → Finnish: UFO, ufo
* → German: UFO, Ufo
* → Greek: ούφο (oúfo)
* → Italian: UFO, ufo
* → Japanese: UFO (yūfō)
* → Norwegian: ufo
* → Portuguese: UFO, ufo
* → Swedish: ufo, UFO

#### Translations
### See also

* flying saucer
* IFO

### Anagrams

* fou

## Czech
### Noun

UFO
* UFO

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

## Estonian
### Etymology

From English UFO.

### Noun

UFO
* UFO

### References

* UFO in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Finnish
### Etymology

English UFO

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈufo/, [ˈufo̞]
* Rhymes: -ufo
* Hyphenation: U‧FO

### Noun

UFO
* UFO (unidentified flying object)

## German
### Alternative forms

* Ufo

### Etymology

Borrowed from English UFO, initialism of unidentified flying object, itself translated into German as unidentifiziertes Flugobjekt or more commonly unbekanntes Flugobjekt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈuːfo/
* It is entirely unusual to pronounce the letters individually and such a pronunciation would be unlikely to be understood.
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

UFO n (strong, genitive UFOs or UFO, plural UFOs or UFO)
* UFO

#### Derived terms

* UFO-Absturz
* UFO-Sichtung
* Ufologe
* Ufologie

### See also

* Fliegende Untertasse

### Further reading

* “UFO” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* ufo

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈu.fo/
* Rhymes: -ufo
* Hyphenation: Ù‧FO

### Noun

UFO m (invariable)
* UFO
    Synonyms: oggetto volante non identificato m, alieno m

## Japanese
### Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English UFO, but pronounced like an acronym rather than a mere initialism.

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ユーフォー [yúꜜùfòò] (Atamadaka – [1])
* IPA: [jɯ̟ːɸo̞ː]

### Noun

UFO(ユーフォー) • (yūfō)
* Synonym of 未確認飛行物体 (mikakunin hikō buttai, “unidentified flying object”); a UFO

### See also

* UMA(ユーマ) (yūma)

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* ufo

### Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English UFO.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈu.fɔ/
* Rhymes: -ufɔ
* Syllabification: U‧FO

### Noun

UFO n (indeclinable)
* (science fiction, ufology) UFO, unidentified flying object
    Synonyms: latający spodek, latający talerz, niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający, ufo

#### Derived terms

* ufologia
* ufoludek

#### Related terms

* ufologiczny
* ufo
* ufolog

### Further reading

* UFO in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* UFO in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* ufo

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English UFO.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈu.fo/
* It is uncommon for the letters to be pronounced individually.

### Noun

UFO m (plural UFOs)
* Synonym of OVNI

#### Related terms

* ufologia
* ufológico
* ufólogo

## Swedish
### Noun

UFO n
* Alternative form of ufo

#### Declension
### References

* UFO in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)