geology

English

Etymology

From Modern Latin geologia, from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê, “earth”) + -logia (“the study of”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: jē-ŏlʹə-jē, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈɑl.ə.dʒi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
• Hyphenation: ge‧o‧lo‧gy

Noun

geology (countable and uncountable, plural geologies)

1. The science that studies the structure of the earth (or other planets), together with its origin and development, especially by examination of its rocks.
2. The geological structure of a region.

   The geology of the Alps.

Derived terms

• astrogeology
• biogeology
• exogeology
• flood geology
• geobiology
• geohydrology
• geologic
• geological
• geologist
• hydrogeology
• microgeology
• nongeology
• paleogeology
• petrogeology
• photogeology
• radiogeology

 

Translations

the study of the earth

• Arabic: جِيُولُوجِيَا‎ (ar) f (jiyulūjiyā), عِلْم اَلْأَرْض‎ m (ʕilm al-ʔarḍ), عِلْم اَلْإِرَاضَة‎ m (ʕilm al-ʔirāḍa)
• Aragonese: cheolochía f
• Armenian: երկրաբանություն (hy) (erkrabanutʿyun)
• Assamese: ভূতত্ত্ব (bhutottto)
• Asturian: xeoloxía f
• Azerbaijani: geologiya (az)
• Basque: geologia (eu)
• Belarusian: геало́гія f (hjealóhija)
• Bulgarian: геоло́гия f (geológija)
• Burmese: ဘူမိဗေဒ (my) (bhumi.beda.)
• Catalan: geologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地質／地质 (zh) (dìzhì), 地質學／地质学 (zh) (dìzhìxué)

• Czech: geologie (cs) f
• Danish: geologi (da) c
• Dinka: piööckätöupiny
• Dutch: geologie (nl) f, aardkunde (nl) f
• Esperanto: geologio (eo)
• Estonian: geoloogia
• Faroese: jarðfrøði f
• Finnish: geologia (fi)
• French: géologie (fr) f
• Friulian: gjeologjie f
• Galician: xeoloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: გეოლოგია (geologia)
• German: Geologie (de) f
• Greek: γεωλογία (el) f (geología)
• Hebrew: גֵּאוֹלוֹגְיָה‎ (he) f (geológya)
• Hindi: भूविज्ञान m (bhūvigyān), भौमिकी f (bhaumikī)
• Hungarian: geológia (hu), földtan (hu)
• Icelandic: jarðfræði (is) f
• Ido: geologio (io)
• Indonesian: geologi (id)
• Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᓕᕆᓂᖅ (nonaliriniq)
• Irish: geolaíocht f
• Italian: geologia (it) f
• Japanese: 地質学 (ja) (ちしつがく, chishitsugaku)
• Kannada: ಭೂರಚನಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (bhūracanaśāstra)
• Kazakh: геология (kk) (geologiä)
• Khmer: ធរណីវិទ្យា (thor rok ni vit tyea)
• Korean: 지질학(地質學) (ko) (jijilhak)
• Kyrgyz: геология (ky) (geologiya)
• Latin: geologia f
• Latvian: ģeoloģija f
• Lithuanian: geologija f, žemėtyra f
• Macedonian: геологија f (geologija)
• Malay: geologi (ms), kaji bumi
• Maori: mātai aronuku
• Marathi: भुरचनाशास्त्र (bhuracnāśāstra)
• Mongolian: геологи (mn) (geologi)
• Navajo: nahasdzáán naalkaah
• Norwegian: geologi (no) m
• Occitan: geologia (oc) f
• Persian: زمین‌شناسی‎ (zamin-šenâsi)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: jiolojii
• Polish: geologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: geologia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਭੂਵਿਵਗਆਨ (bhūvivgaāna)
• Romanian: geologie (ro) f
• Russian: геоло́гия (ru) f (geológija)
• Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-talmhainn m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: геологија f

  Roman: geologija (sh) f

• Sindhi: ڀون ڀياس‎ (sd) m
• Slovak: geológia (sk) f
• Slovene: geologija (sl) f
• Spanish: geología (es) f
• Swahili: jiolojia (sw)
• Swedish: geologi (sv)
• Tagalog: paladutaan, dutaan
• Tajik: геология (tg) (geologiya)
• Tatar: геология (geoloğiya)
• Thai: ธรณีวิทยา (th) (tɔɔ-rá-nii-wít-tá-yaa)
• Turkish: jeoloji (tr), yerbilim (tr)
• Turkmen: geologiýa
• Ukrainian: геоло́гія (uk) f (heolóhija)
• Vietnamese: địa chất học (vi) (地質學)
• Walloon: djeyolodjeye (wa) f
• Yiddish: געאָלאָגיע‎ f (geologye)

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