beekeeping

English

Etymology

From bee +‎ keeping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːˌkiːpɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

beekeeping (uncountable)

1. The practice or profession of keeping and caring for bees.

   Synonym: apiculture

   Coordinate term: beekeeper

Translations

raising bees

• Albanian: bletari (sq)
• Armenian: մեղվապահություն (hy) (meġvapahutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: arıçılıq
• Basque: erlezaintza
• Belarusian: пчаля́рства n (pčaljárstva)
• Bulgarian: пчела́рство n (pčelárstvo)
• Catalan: apicultura f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 養蜂 / 养蜂 (zh) (yǎngfēng), 養蜂業 / 养蜂业 (zh) (yǎngfēngyè)

• Czech: včelaření n
• Esperanto: abelkulturo
• Finnish: mehiläishoito, mehiläistarhaus
• French: apiculture (fr) f, industrie abeillère f
• Georgian: მეფუტკრეობა (mepuṭḳreoba)
• German: Bienenzucht (de) f, Imkerei (de) f, Zeidlerei f, Bienenhaltung f
• Greek: μελισσοκομία (el) f (melissokomía), μελισσουργία (el) f (melissourgía)

  Ancient: μελισσουργία f (melissourgía)

• Hungarian: méhészet (hu), méhészkedés (hu), méhtenyésztés (hu)
• Icelandic: býflugnarækt f
• Irish: beachadóireacht f, beachaireacht f
• Italian: apicoltura (it) f
• Japanese: 養蜂 (ja) (ようほう, yōhō)
• Korean: 양봉(養蜂) (ko) (yangbong)
• Lithuanian: bitininkỹstė f
• Macedonian: пчеларство n (pčelarstvo)
• Norwegian: birøkt c
• Persian: زنبورداری
• Polish: pszczelarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: apicultura (pt) f
• Russian: пчелово́дство (ru) n (pčelovódstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пчеларство n

  Roman: pčelarstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: včelárstvo n
• Slovene: čebelarstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: apicultura (es) f
• Swedish: biodling (sv) c
• Turkish: arıcılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: бджільни́цтво (uk) n (bdžilʹnýctvo)
• Vietnamese: nuôi ong
• Volapük: bienam (vo)