honey bee

See also: honeybee

English

A Carniolan honey bee, Apis mellifera carnica

Alternative forms

• honeybee

Pronunciation

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Noun

honey bee (plural honey bees)

1. 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

• western honeybee - Apis mellifera
• dwarf honeybee -
• giant honey bee -
• Indonesian honey bee -
• Himalayan honey bee -
• eastern honey bee -

Translations

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)
• French: abeille à miel (fr) f, abeille (fr) f
• German: Honigbiene (de) f

  Alemannic German: Bii f

• Gujarati: મધમાખી f (madhmākhī)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: मधुमक्खी (hi) f (madhumakkhī)
• Icelandic: býfluga (is) f
• Indonesian: lebah madu (id)
• Irish: beach mheala f, seileán m (wild)
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• Italian: ape da miele f, ape domestica (it) f
• Japanese: 蜜蜂 (ja) (みつばち, mitsubachi)
• Korean: 꿀벌 (ko) (kkulbeol)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Manx: shellan molley m
• Marathi: मधमाशी f (madhmāśī)
• Navajo: tsísʼná
• Norwegian: honningbie c
• Persian: زنبور عسل (fa) (zanbur-e 'asal)
• Polish: pszczoła (pl) f miodna
• Portuguese: abelha doméstica (pt) f, abelha de mel f
• Russian: пчела́ медоносная (pčelá medonosnaja), медоно́сная пчела́ (medonósnaja pčelá)
• 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 fêl (cy) f
• Zazaki: hıng f

See also

• drone
• wax