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English[edit]
Two views of a bumblebee (Bombus terrestris).
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1520s from bumble + bee, replacing Middle English humbul-be. Merged with Middle English bombeln (“to boom, buzz”), in the late 14th century.
Pronunciation[edit]
bumblebee (plural bumblebees)
- Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.
- Synonyms: (obsolete) humblebee, dumbledore
- A mid yellow, sometimes slightly orange.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
genus of bee
- Afrikaans: hommel
- Albanian: brumbull (sq) m, bumballë m
- Apache:
- Western Apache: tdʼidáá łtsʼogé
- Arabic: طَنَّانَة f (ṭannāna), نَحْلَة f (naḥla)
- Aragonese: bombolón m
- Armenian: իշամեղու (hy) (išameġu), բրետ (hy) (bret)
- Aromanian: zângânaru n
- Asturian: babarón m, abeyón m, moscardu m
- Bashkir: иңкеш (iñkeş)
- Basque: erlastar
- Belarusian: чмель m (čmjelʹ)
- Breton: sardonenn (br) f
- Bulgarian: земна пчела́ f (zemna pčelá)
- Burmese: ပိတုန်း (my) (pi.tun:)
- Cahuilla: kungsexwet
- Catalan: borinot (ca) m, abellot (ca) m
- Cebuano: buyog
- Chechen: бумбари (bumbari)
- Cheyenne: tâhpe'âséhahnoma
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 熊蜂 (hung4 fung1)
- Hokkien: 金瓜蜂 (kim-koe-phang)
- Mandarin: 大黃蜂／大黄蜂 (zh) (dàhuángfēng), 熊蜂 (zh) (xióngfēng)
- Chukchi: ӄоймароӄыр (qojmaroqyr)
- Chuvash: тĕкĕлтура (tĕkĕlt̬ura)
- Cornish: sudron ?, gwenenen sia f
- Corsican: bufonu m
- Czech: čmelák (cs) m
- Danish: humlebi (da) c
- Dupaningan Agta: abuyog
- Dutch: hommel (nl) f
- Dzongkha: སྦྱངམ་པོ་ཏོམ (sbyangm po tom)
- Erzya: мода мекш (moda mekš)
- Esperanto: burdo (eo)
- Estonian: kimalane
- Faroese: humla f
- Finnish: kimalainen (fi)
- French: bourdon (fr) m
- Old French: bordon m
- Galician: abesouro (gl) m, abesoiro m
- Georgian: ბაზი (bazi)
- German: Hummel (de) f
- Greek: βόμβος (el) m (vómvos), βομβίνος m (vomvínos), μπάμπουρας (el) m (bámpouras)
- Ancient: βομβυλιός m (bombuliós)
- Greenlandic: igutsak (kl)
- Guaraní: mamanga
- Gujarati: બબલબી ? (babalbī)
- Hebrew: דבור (he) f (dabur)
- Hiligaynon: agogóling
- Hindi: भँवर (hi) m (bhãvar), भँवरा (hi) m (bhãvrā), भ्रमर (hi) m (bhramar)
- Hungarian: dongó (hu), poszméh (hu)
- Icelandic: hunangsfluga (is) f
- Ido: burdono (io)
- Ingrian: kimalain, peltokimalain, maakimalain
- Ingush: бурилгамоза (burilgamoza)
- Irish: bumbóg (ga) f, beach fhiáin f
- Isthmus Zapotec: bezu
- Italian: bombo (it) m
- Japanese: 円花蜂 (まるはなばち, maruhanabachi), 丸花蜂 (まるはなばち, maruhanabachi), マルハナバチ (maruhanabachi)
- Kapampangan: tamumu
- Kazakh: түкті ара (tüktı ara)
- Korean: 뒝벌 (ko) (dwengbeol), 뒤영벌 (dwiyeongbeol)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bivbivink (ku)
- Kyrgyz: жапан аары (japan aarı)
- Ladin: tavan m
- Latgalian: kamane f
- Latin: bombus m
- Latvian: kamene f
- Lithuanian: kamanė f
- Livvi: vuoksahaine
- Luxembourgish: Bommel m
- Macedonian: бумбар m (bumbar)
- Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀪𑀫𑀭 m (bhamara)
- Maltese: żunżan m
- Manx: shellan breck m, shellan meay m
- Maori: pī rorohū
- Marathi: भोंवर ? (bhouvar), भृंग ? (bhŕṅga), भ्रमर ? (bhramar)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: ошымшӱлыш (ošymšülyš)
- Western Mari: пыйылмы (pyjylmy)
- Mezquital Otomi: gäni, hmini
- Middle Dutch: dorne
- Middle Low German: dorne
- Nahuatl: xīcohtli (nah)
- Navajo: tsísʼnátsoh
- Nepali: भमरा (bhamarā)
- Nogai: кабын (kabın)
- Norman: bourde f (Jersey)
- North Frisian: imkönang ?
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) ма̄гва̄руп (māgwārup)
- Northern Sami: uvlu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: humle (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: humle f
- Occitan: abelhard (oc) m
- Ocotlán Zapotec: bezoj
- Old English: dora m
- Pashto: بورا (ps) (bawrā)
- Pennsylvania German: Hummel f
- Persian: برمر (barmar)
- Plautdietsch: Hommel m
- Polish: trzmiel (pl) m, bąk (pl) m
- Portuguese: abelhão (pt) m, mamangaba (pt) f, mangangá (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਭੰਵਰ m (bhãvar), ਭੰਵਰਾ m (bhãvrā)
- Quechua: wayrunq'u
- Romanian: bondar (ro) m, bărzăun (ro) m
- Russian: шмель (ru) m (šmelʹ)
- Rwanda-Rundi: ivubi
- Saanich: səmsəmay̕ə
- Samogitian: kamonie f, kamanė f
- Sanskrit: भ्रमर (sa) m (bhramara)
- Scots: bum-bee
- Scottish Gaelic: seillean mòr m, seillean-dubh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бу̏мба̄р m
- Roman: bȕmbār (sh) m
- Shor: оомалай
- Shuswap: xgéyeqen̓
- Slovak: čmeľ (sk) m, čmeliak m
- Slovene: čmrlj (sl) m anim
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: tśmjel m, bombak m
- Upper Sorbian: čmjeła f
- Spanish: abejorro (es) m, abejarrón (es) m, abejón (es) m, moscardón (es) m (Chile), jicote (es) m (Mexico)
- Swedish: humla (sv) c
- Tagalog: himbubuyog, bubuyog (tl)
- Tajik: говзанбӯр (govzanbür)
- Tamil: வண்டுத்தேனீ (vaṇṭuttēṉī)
- Tarifit: iyarẓẓi m
- Telugu: తుమ్మెద (te) (tummeda)
- Thai: ผึ้งมีขนตัวใหญ่ที่ส่งเสียงหึ่งๆ (pêung mee kŏn dtua yài tĕe sòng sĭang hèung-hèung)
- Turkish: hezen arısı, bombus (tr)
- Udmurt: майсы (majsy)
- Ukrainian: джміль m (džmilʹ)
- Urdu: بھنور m (bhãvar), بھنورا m (bhãvrā), بھرمر m (bhramar)
- Veps: učubras, ürgiš
- Vietnamese: ong nghệ (vi)
- Vilamovian: humuł f
- Waray-Waray: alimbubuyog
- Welsh: cacynen (cy) f, cachgi bwm f, gwenynen wyllt f, cacynen y tewlaeth f
- West Flemish: hommel f
- West Frisian: holder
- Yakut: тойон ыҥырыа (toyon ıñırıa)
- Yucatec Maya: báalam kaab
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