English
A Carniolan honey bee , Apis mellifera carnica
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
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 )
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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