zoology

See also: zoölogy

English

Wikiversity

Alternative forms

• zoölogy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion, “animal”) + λόγος (lógos, “knowledge”). Analyzable as zoo- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: zō-ŏl′-ə-jē, zo͞o-ŏl′-ə-jē
• (UK) IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒlədʒi/, /zuːˈɒləd͡ʒi/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /zoʊˈɑləd͡ʒi/, /zuˈɑləd͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

zoology (countable and uncountable, plural zoologies)

1. The part of biology relating to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
2. A treatise on this science.

Usage notes

The pronunciation in /zu-/ has often received negative comment, but has nevertheless become very common, especially in British English.

Derived terms

• anthrozoology
• archaeozoology
• archeozoology
• bryozoology
• cartozoology
• cryptozoology
• epizoology
• ethnozoology
• malacozoology
• mastozoology
• paleozoology
• protozoology
• xenozoology
• zoologer
• zoologic
• zoological
• zoologically
• zoologist
• zoologize

 

Translations

science that studies the animal kingdom

• Afrikaans: dierkunde (af)
• Albanian: zoologjia
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْحَيَوَان‎ m (ʕilm al-ḥayawān)
• Aragonese: zoolochía f
• Armenian: կենդանաբանություն (hy) (kendanabanutʿyun)
• Asturian: zooloxía f
• Azerbaijani: zoologiya
• Belarusian: заалогія f (zaalóhija)
• Bengali: প্রাণিবিজ্ঞান (pranibiggên)
• Breton: loenoniezh (br) f
• Bulgarian: зоология (bg) f (zoologija)
• Burmese: သတ္တဗေဒ (my) (satta.beda.)
• Catalan: zoologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動物學／动物学 (zh) (dòngwùxué)

• Cornish: milonieth f
• Czech: zoologie (cs) f
• Danish: zoologi (da) c
• Dutch: zoölogie (nl), dierkunde (nl)
• Esperanto: zoologio
• Estonian: zooloogia (et)
• Finnish: eläintiede (fi), zoologia (fi)
• French: zoologie (fr) f
• Galician: zooloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: ზოოლოგია (zoologia)
• German: Zoologie (de) f, Tierkunde f
• Greek: ζωολογία (el) f (zoología)
• Gujarati: પ્રાણીશાસ્ત્ર (prāṇīśāstra)
• Hebrew: זואולוגיה‎ (he) f (zo'ológya)
• Hindi: प्राणि विज्ञान m (prāṇi vigyān)
• Hungarian: állattan (hu), zoológia (hu)
• Icelandic: dýrafræði (is) f
• Ido: zoologio (io)
• Indonesian: zoologi (id)
• Interlingua: zoologia (ia)
• Irish: zó-eolaíocht (ga) f
• Italian: zoologia (it) f
• Japanese: 動物学 (ja) (どうぶつがく, dōbutsugaku)
• Kazakh: зоология (zoologiä)
• Khmer: សត្វវិទ្យា (sat vityie)
• Korean: 동물학(動物學) (ko) (dongmulhak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ajalnasî (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: зоология (ky) (zoologiya)
• Latvian: zooloģija f
• Lithuanian: zoologija (lt) f
• Macedonian: зоологија f (zoologija)
• Malay: kaji haiwan, zoologi (ms)
• Malayalam: ജന്തുശാസ്ത്രം (jantuśāstraṃ)
• Maori: mātai kīrehe
• Marathi: प्राणिशास्त्र (prāṇiśāstra)
• Navajo: naaldeehii naalkaah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: zoologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: zoologi m

• Occitan: zoologia (oc) f
• Persian: جانورشناسی‎ (fa) (jânvar-šenâsi)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: soo'ologii
• Plautdietsch: Tiakonst f
• Polish: zoologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: zoologia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਜੰਤੂ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (jantū vigiāna)
• Romanian: zoologie (ro) f
• Russian: зооло́гия (ru) f (zoológija)
• Scottish Gaelic: ainmh-eòlas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зоологија f

  Roman: zoologija (sh) f

• Slovak: zoológia f
• Slovene: zoologija (sl) f
• Spanish: zoología (es) f
• Swedish: zoologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalubhayupan
• Tajik: ҷонваршиносӣ (jonvaršinosī)
• Tamil: விலங்கியல் (ta) (vilaṅkiyal)
• Telugu: జంతుశాస్త్రము (te) (jantuśāstramu)
• Thai: สัตววิทยา (th) (sàt wíttáyaa)
• Turkish: zooloji (tr)
• Turkmen: zoologiýa
• Ukrainian: зоологія (uk) f (zoolohija)
• Uzbek: zoologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: động vật học (vi) (動物學)
• Welsh: sŵoleg (cy) f
• Yiddish: זאָאָלאָגיע‎ f (zoologye)