meteorology

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmiːtɪəˈɹɒlədʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmiti.əˈɹɑːlədʒi/

Etymology

[1610] From French météorologie, from Ancient Greek μετέωρος ‎(metéōros, “high in the sky”) + -λογία ‎(-logía). Surface etymology is meteor ‎(“atmospheric phenomenon”) +‎ -logy ‎(“study of”)

Noun

meteorology ‎(countable and uncountable, plural meteorologies)

1. The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.
2. The atmospheric phenomena in a specific region or period.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:meteorology

Derived terms

• aeronautical meteorology
• agricultural meteorology
• agrometeorology
• applied meteorology
• astrometeorology
• biometeorology
• dynamic meteorology
• hydrometeorology

• macrometeorology
• mesometeorology
• meteorological
• micrometeorology
• physical meteorology
• radarmeteorology
• radar meteorology
• radio meteorology
• synoptic meteorology

Related terms

Related terms

meteor meteoric

meteorite meteoroid

meteoroidal meteoritic meteoritics

Translations

science

• Afrikaans: weerkunde
• Albanian: meteorologjia
• Alemannic German: Wettrkunde
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلطَّقْس m ‎(ʿilm aṭ-ṭaqs)
• Armenian: օդերեւութաբանություն ‎(ōderewutʿabanutʿyun)
• Azeri: meteorologiya
• Basque: meteorologia (eu)
• Belarusian: метэаралогія f ‎(mjetearalohija)
• Bengali: আবহাওয়াবিদ্যা ‎(abhaoyabidja)
• Breton: meteorologiezh
• Bulgarian: метеорология f ‎(meteorologija)
• Burmese: မိုးလေဝသပညာ (my) ‎(mui:lewa.sa.pa.nya)
• Catalan: meteorologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣象學 (zh), 气象学 (zh) ‎(qìxiàngxué); 氣象 (zh), 气象 (zh) ‎(qìxiàng) (phenomenon)

  Min Nan: 氣象學 ‎(khì-siōng-ha̍k)

• Czech: meteorologie (cs) f
• Danish: meteorologi (da) c
• Dutch: weerkunde (nl) f
• Esperanto: meteorologio, meteologio
• Estonian: ilmastikuteadus
• Faroese: veðurfrøði f
• Finnish: meteorologia (fi), ilmatiede (fi), säätiede
• French: météorologie (fr) f
• Galician: meteoroloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: მეტეოროლოგია ‎(meṭeorologia)
• German: Meteorologie (de) f, Wetterkunde f, Witterungslehre f
• Greek: μετεωρολογία (el) f ‎(meteorología)
• Gujarati: હવામાનશાસ્ત્ર ‎(havāmānśāstra), વાયુશાસ્ત્ર ‎(vāyuśāstra)
• Hebrew: מטאורולוגיה (he) f ‎(meteorológya)
• Hindi: ऋतुविज्ञान (hi) ‎(r̥tuvijñān)
• Hungarian: meteorológia (hu), légkörtan, légtüneménytan
• Icelandic: veðurfræði (is) f
• Ido: meteorologio (io)
• Indonesian: meteorologi (id)
• Irish: meitéareolaíocht f
• Italian: meteorologia (it) f
• Japanese: 気象学 (ja) ‎(きしょうがく, kishōgaku), 気象 (ja) ‎(きしょう, kishō) (phenomenon)
• Kazakh: метеорология ‎(meteorologïya)
• Khmer: នភាវិទ្យា ‎(neaʔpʰie vityie), ឧតុវិទ្យា ‎(uʔtoʔvityie)
• Korean: 기상학 (ko) ‎(gisanghag) (氣象學 (ko))

• Kurdish: meteorolojî (ku)
• Kyrgyz: метеорология ‎(meteorologiya)
• Latvian: meteoroloģija f
• Limburgish: weerkunde
• Lithuanian: meteorologija f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Wederkunn

• Macedonian: метеорологија f ‎(meteorologija)
• Malay: kaji cuaca, meteorologi
• Malayalam: അന്തരീക്ഷവിജ്ഞാനം ‎(antarīkṣavijñānaṃ)
• Maori: mātai huarere
• Marathi: हवामानशास्त्र ‎(havāmānśāstra)
• Mongolian: цаг уурын судлал ‎(tsag uuryn sudlal)
• North Frisian: wääderkunde
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: meteorologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: meteorologi m

• Persian: هواشناسی (fa) ‎(havâšenâsi)
• Polish: meteorologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: meteorologia (pt) f
• Quechua: mit'a yachay
• Romanian: meteorologie (ro) f
• Russian: метеороло́гия (ru) f ‎(meteorológija)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgoil-aimsir
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: метеорологија f, временословље n

  Roman: meteorologija (sh) f, vremenoslovlje (sh) n

• Slovak: meteorológia f
• Slovene: vremenoslóvje (sl), meteorologija (sl) f
• Spanish: meteorología (es) f
• Swahili: meteorolojia
• Swedish: meteorologi (sv) c, väderlekslära
• Tagalog: meteorolohiya
• Tajik: ҳавошиносӣ ‎(havošinosī)
• Tamil: வானிலையியல் (ta) ‎(vāṉilaiyiyal)
• Thai: อุตุนิยมวิทยา
• Turkish: meteoroloji (tr)
• Turkmen: meteorologiýa
• Ukrainian: метеорологія f ‎(meteorolohija)
• Uzbek: meteorologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: khí tượng học (vi) (氣象學)
• Walloon: meteorolodjeye
• Welsh: meteoroleg
• West Frisian: waarkunde
• Yiddish: מעטעאָראָלאָגיע f ‎(meteorologye)

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Translations to be checked

• German: Wettervorhersage (de) f

• Hungarian: időjóslás

See also

• aerology
• aeronomy
• weather forecasting