zoology

See also: zoölogy

English

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Alternative forms

• zoölogy

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion, “animal”) + λόγος (lógos, “knowledge”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒlədʒi/; (non standard) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /zuːˈɒlədʒi/
• (US) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /zoʊˈɑlədʒi/; (non standard) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /zuˈɑlədʒi/

Noun

zoology (countable and uncountable, plural zoologies)

1. That part of biology which relates 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.

Derived terms

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• 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
• Albanian: zoologjia
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْحَيَوَان m (ʕilm al-ḥayawān)
• Armenian: կենդանաբանություն (hy) (kendanabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: zooloxía f
• Azeri: 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), 动物学 (zh) (dòngwùxué)

• Cornish: milionieth f
• Czech: zoologie (cs) f
• Danish: zoologi (da) c
• Dutch: zoölogie (nl), dierkunde (nl)
• Esperanto: zoologio
• Estonian: zooloogia (et)
• Finnish: eläintiede (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 vijñān)
• 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 (ko) (dongmurhak) (動物學 (ko))
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: зоология (ky) (zoologiya)
• Latvian: zooloģija f
• Lithuanian: zoologija (lt) f
• Macedonian: зоологија f (zoologija)
• Malay: kaji haiwan, zoologi
• Malayalam: ജന്തുശാസ്ത്രം (jantuśāstraṁ)
• Marathi: प्राणिशास्त्र (prāṇiśāstra)
• Navajo: naaldeehii naalkaah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: zoologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: zoologi m

• Novial:
• Persian: جانورشناسی (fa) (jânvar-šenâsi)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: soo'ologii
• 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 (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)