ethnology

ethnology

English

Etymology

ethno- +‎ -logy

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Noun

ethnology (usually uncountable, plural ethnologies)

1. (anthropology) The branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.

Related terms

• ethnic
• ethnography
• ethnological
• ethnologist

 

Translations

branch of anthropology

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Breton: tudoniezh (br) f Catalan: etnologia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 民族學／民族学 (zh) (mínzúxué) Czech: etnologie (cs) f Danish: etnologi c Dutch: volkskunde f, volkenkunde (nl) Esperanto: etnologio Finnish: etnologia (fi), kansatiede (fi) French: ethnologie (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Ethnologie (de) f, Völkerkunde (de) f Greek: εθνολογία (el) f (ethnología) Guaraní: tekochaukahakuaaty Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: etnológia (hu), összehasonlító/egyetemes néprajz Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Ido: etnologio (io) Indonesian: etnologi (id) Irish: eitneolaíocht f Japanese: 民族学 (みんぞくがく, minzokugaku) Kannada: ನಾಡರಿಮೆ (kn) (nāḍarime) Kazakh: халықтану (xalyqtanu) Korean: 민족학 (ko) (minjokhak) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: binyadnasî (ku) Latvian: etnoloģija f Malay: kaji rumpun bangsa, etnologi (ms) Malayalam: ഗോത്രവർഗ്ഗപഠനം (gōtravaṟggapaṭhanaṃ) Maltese: please add this translation if you can Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: etnologia (pl) f Portuguese: etnologia (pt) f Romanian: etnologie (ro) f Russian: этноло́гия (ru) f (etnológija), народове́дение (ru) n (narodovédenije) Spanish: etnología (es) f Swedish: etnologi (sv) c Tagalog: dalublahian Tamil: இனப்பண்பாட்டுயல் (iṉappaṇpāṭṭuyal), இன ஒப்பாய்வியல் (iṉa oppāyviyal) Telugu: మానవజాతి శాస్త్రం (mānavajāti śāstraṁ) Thai: ชาติพันธุ์วิทยา (chātiphạnṭhu̒withyā) Turkish: budunbilim (tr) Ukrainian: етнологія f (etnolohija), народознавство n (narodoznavstvo) Vietnamese: dân tộc học

See also

• entomology
• ethology
• etiology/ aetiology
• etymology

 

Further reading

• ethnology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ethnology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• ethnology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911