hydrology

English

Etymology

hydro- +‎ -ology

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

hydrology (usually uncountable, plural hydrologies)

1. The science of the properties, distribution, and effects of water on a planet's surface, in the soil and underlying rocks, and in the atmosphere
2. The properties, distribution, and flows of water in a specific locale; the hydrological characteristics of a particular place or region.
   • 1883, George Robert Bowen Steane, Transactions of the Royal society of Victoria‎^[1], Notes on Hydrology, page 96:

     Excessively high floods may be caused by obstructions which were not noted by the observer subsequently removed. Information of this kind is necessary, but it is equally necessary that something of the local hydrology should be also known and applied.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• dendrohydrology
• ecohydrology
• geohydrology

• hydrologist
• paleohydrology
• radiohydrology

Translations

science related to water

• Arabic: عِلْم المِيَاهِيَّات (ʕilm al-miyāhiyyāt)
• Armenian: ջրաբանություն (hy) (ǰrabanutʻyun)
• Burmese: ဇလဗေဒ (my) (ja.la.beda.)
• Catalan: hidrologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水文學／水文学 (zh) (shuǐwénxué), 水文学 (zh) (shuǐwénxué)

• Czech: hydrologie f
• Dutch: waterkunde f
• Esperanto: hidrologio
• Estonian: hüdroloogia
• Faroese: vatnfrøði f
• Finnish: hydrologia (fi), vesitiede (fi)
• French: hydrologie (fr) f
• Galician: hidroloxía f
• German: Hydrologie (de) f
• Greek: υδρολογία (el) (ydrología)
• Gujarati: જળવિજ્ઞાન (jaḷvijñān)
• Hawaiian: kālaiwai
• Hindi: जलविज्ञान (jalvijñān)
• Hungarian: hidrológia (hu), víztan
• Icelandic: vatnafræði f, vatnsfræði f
• Ido: hidrologio (io)
• Irish: hidreolaíocht f
• Japanese: 水文学 (すいもんがく, suimongaku)
• Khmer: ជលវិទ្យា (km) (jol vit tyea)
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• Korean: 수문학 (ko) (sumunhak)
• Latin: hydrologia f
• Malagasy: haibolan-dranoka (mg)
• Malay: hidrologi
• Maori: mātai arowai
• Marathi: जलविज्ञान (jalvijñān)
• Mongolian: ус судлал (us sudlal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hydrologi m

  Nynorsk: hydrologi m

• Persian: هیدرولوژی
• Polish: hydrologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: hidrologia (pt) f
• Romanian: hidrologie (ro) f
• Russian: гидроло́гия (ru) (gidrológija)
• Slovene: hidrologija (sl) f
• Spanish: hidrología (es) f
• Swedish: vattenlära
• Tajik: обшиносӣ (obšinosī)
• Tamil: நீரியல் (ta) (nīriyal)
• Thai: อุทกวิทยา (th)
• Turkish: su bilimi (tr)
• Urdu: مائیات (māiyāt)
• Vietnamese: thủy văn học, thuỷ văn học