English
Etymology
From French entomologie, from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (éntomon, “insect”) + -logie (from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɛntəˈmɒlədʒi/
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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
Synonyms
Holonyms
Derived terms
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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