English
Etymology
From Middle English hony bee.
Pronunciation
Noun
honey bee (plural honey bees)
- Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.
Hyponyms
- (species in Apis): See entry for Apis
Derived terms
Translations
honey bee
- Alabama: foho
- Arabic: نَحْل m (naḥl)
- Armenian: մեղու (hy) (meġu)
- Assamese: মৌমাখি (moumakhi)
- Bashkir: бал ҡорто (bal qorto)
- Bengali: মৌমাছি (bn) (mōumachi)
- Bulgarian: медоносна пчела f (medonosna pčela)
- Catalan: abella de la mel f, abella mel·lífera f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蜜蜂 (zh) (mìfēng)
- Czech: včela medonosná (cs) f
- Dutch: honingbij (nl) f, bij (nl) f, imme (nl) f
- Esperanto: mielabelo
- Finnish: hunajamehiläinen (fi), tarhamehiläinen (fi), mehiläinen (fi)
- French: abeille à miel (fr) f, abeille (fr) f
- German: Honigbiene (de) f
- Gujarati: મધમાખી f (madhmākhī)
- Hebrew: דבורת הדבש f (dvorát hadvásh)
- Hindi: मधुमक्खी (hi) f (madhumakkhī)
- Icelandic: býfluga (is) f
- Indonesian: lebah madu (id)
- Irish: beach mheala f, seileán m (wild)
- Italian: ape da miele f, ape domestica (it) f
- Japanese: 蜜蜂 (ja) (みつばち, mitsubachi)
- Korean: 꿀벌 (ko) (kkulbeol)
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- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: مێشھەنگوین (mêşhenguyn)
- Northern Kurdish: mêşhingiv (ku)
- Malayalam: തേനീച്ച (ml) (tēnīcca)
- Manx: shellan molley m
- Marathi: मधमाशी f (madhmāśī)
- Navajo: tsísʼná
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: honningbie m or f
- Nynorsk: honningbie f
- Persian: زنبور عسل (fa) (zanbur-e 'asal)
- Polish: pszczoła (pl) f miodna (pl)
- Portuguese: abelha doméstica (pt) f, abelha de mel f
- Russian: пчела́ медоносная (pčelá medonosnaja), медоно́сная пчела́ (medonósnaja pčelá)
- Scottish Gaelic: seillean-mil m, seillean-meala m, seillean-sgip m
- Spanish: abeja (es) f, abeja melífera (es) f, abeja de miel f
- Swedish: honungsbi (sv) n
- Tagalog: pukyot
- Tajik: занбӯри асал (zanbür-i asal)
- Telugu: తేనెటీగ (te) (tēneṭīga)
- Turkish: bal arısı (tr)
- Uyghur: ھەسەل ھەرىسى (hesel herisi), بال ھەرىسى (bal herisi)
- Welsh: gwenynen (cy) f, gwenynen fêl (cy) f
- Zazaki: hıng (diq) f
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