apiary

English

WOTD – 4 April 2008

Etymology

17th century, from Latin apiārium, from apis (“bee”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.pi.ə.ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.pi.ɛɹ.i/

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Noun

apiary (plural apiaries)

1. A place where bees and their hives are kept.

Derived terms

• apiarian

Hyponyms

• beehive

Related terms

• apiarian
• apiarist
• apiculture

Translations

a place where bees and hives are kept

• Bashkir: умарталыҡ (umartalïq)
• Basque: erlategi (eu), erletxe (eu)
• Belarusian: пасека m (pasjeka), пчальнік m (pčalʹnik)
• Bengali: মৌমাছি সংরক্ষণাগার (moumachi sôngrôkkhṇagar), মৌমাছি পালনকেন্দ্র (moumachi palônkendr)
• Catalan: apiari m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 養蜂場 (zh), 养蜂场 (zh) (yǎngfēngchǎng)

• Czech: včelín m
• Finnish: mehiläistarha
• French: rucher (fr) m

  Middle French: ruscher m, apier m

• Galician: apiario (gl) m
• Georgian: საფუტკრე (sapuṭḳre)
• German: Bienenhaus (de) n, Apiarium n, Bienenstand (de) m
• Greek: μελισσοκομείο (el) n (melissokomeío)
• Italian: apiario m

• Japanese: 養蜂場 (ようほうじょう, yōhōjō)
• Ladin: pighêr
• Latvian: drava f
• Lithuanian: bitynas
• Polish: pasieka (pl) f
• Portuguese: apiário (pt) m
• Romanian: stupină (ro) f
• Russian: па́сека (ru) f (páseka), пче́льник (ru) m (pčélʹnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пчѐлиња̄к m, пчеларник m

  Roman: pčèlinjāk (sh) m, pčelarnik (sh) m

• Slovak: včelín (sk) m
• Spanish: colmenar (es) m, apiario m
• Turkish: arılık (tr), kovanlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: пасіка f (pasika)
• Volapük: bienöp, bienamöp, bienadom, bienabäsetem (vo)

Anagrams

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