English
Etymology
From French entomologie, from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (éntomon, “insect”) + -logie (from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy”)).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: en‧to‧mo‧lo‧gy
- Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Noun
entomology (uncountable)
Museum stores its entomology collections in special specimen drawers.
- The scientific study of insects, and (informal) of other arthropods (and occasionally other invertebrates).
Entomology is an important field of study within biology.
Usage notes
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Translations
study of insects
- Albanian: entomologji (sq)
- Arabic: عِلْم اَلْحَشَرَات (ar) m (ʕilm al-ḥašarāt)
- Armenian: միջատաբանություն (hy) (miǰatabanutʻyun)
- Asturian: entomoloxía f
- Belarusian: энтамало́гія f (entamalóhija)
- Breton: amprevanoniezh (br)
- Bulgarian: ентомоло́гия f (entomológija)
- Burmese: ကိမိလဗေဒ (my) (ki.mi.la.beda.)
- Catalan: entomologia f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 昆蟲學／昆虫学 (kwan1 cung4 hok6)
- Hokkien: 昆蟲學／昆虫学 (khun-thiông-ha̍k)
- Mandarin: 昆蟲學／昆虫学 (zh) (kūnchóngxué)
- Czech: entomologie (cs) f
- Danish: entomologi (da) c, insektlære
- Dutch: entomologie (nl) f, insectenkunde f
- Esperanto: entomologio, insektologio
- Estonian: entomoloogia, putukateadus
- Finnish: hyönteistiede (fi)
- French: entomologie (fr) f, insectologie (fr) f
- Galician: entomoloxía (gl) f
- Georgian: ენტომოლოგია (enṭomologia)
- German: Entomologie (de) f, Insektologie f, Insektenkunde (de) f
- Gujarati: કીટવિજ્ઞાન (kīṭvijñān)
- Hawaiian: kālaiʻelala
- Hebrew: אֶנְטוֹמוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) f (entomológya)
- Hindi: कीटविज्ञान m (kīṭvijñān)
- Hungarian: entomológia (hu), rovartan (hu)
- Icelandic: skordýrafræði (is) f
- Ido: entomologio (io)
- Indonesian: entomologi (id)
- Irish: feithideolaíocht f
- Italian: entomologia (it) f
- Japanese: 昆虫学 (ja) (こんちゅうがく, konchūgaku)
- Kannada: ಕೀಟಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (kīṭaśāstra), ಪೂಚಿಯರಿಮೆ (kn) (pūciyarime)
- Kazakh: энтомология (éntomologiä)
- Korean: 곤충학(昆蟲學) (ko) (gonchunghak)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: kêziknasî (ku) f, entomolojî (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: энтомология (entomologiya)
- Lao: ກີຕະວິທະຍາ (kī ta wi tha nyā)
- Latvian: entomoloģija f
- Lithuanian: entomologija
- Macedonian: ентомоло́гија f (entomológija)
- Malay: entomologi (ms), kaji serangga
- Malayalam: കീടശാസ്ത്രം (kīṭaśāstraṁ), ഷഡ്പദശാസ്ത്രം (ṣaḍpadaśāstraṁ)
- Maltese: entomoloġija f
- Marathi: कीटकशास्त्र (kīṭakśāstra)
- Mongolian: шавьж судлал (šavʹž sudlal)
- Northern Thai: ᨠᩦᨭᩅᩥᨴ᩠ᨿᩣ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: entomologi (no) m
- Nynorsk: entomologi m
- Persian: حشرهشناسی (hašare-šenâsi)
- Polish: entomologia (pl) f, owadoznawstwo (pl)
- Portuguese: entomologia (pt) f
- Romanian: entomologie (ro)
- Russian: энтомоло́гия (ru) f (entomológija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ентомологија f
- Roman: entomologija (sh) f
- Slovak: entomológia (sk) f
- Slovene: entomologija (sl) f, žužkoslóvje
- Spanish: entomología (es) f
- Swedish: entomologi (sv) c
- Tagalog: entomolohiya, dalubkulisapan
- Tajik: ҳашаротшиносӣ (hašarotšinosī)
- Tamil: பூச்சியியல் (ta) (pūcciyiyal)
- Thai: กีฏวิทยา (th) (gii-dtà-wít-tá-yaa)
- Turkish: entomoloji (tr), böcekbilim (tr)
- Ukrainian: ентомоло́гія f (entomolóhija)
- Uzbek: entomologiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: côn trùng học (昆蟲學)
- Volapük: näsäkav (vo), (obsolete) sökav
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