honey bee

See also: honeybee

English

A Carniolan honey bee, Apis mellifera carnica

Alternative forms

honeybee

Etymology

From Middle English hony bee.

Pronunciation

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Noun

honey bee (plural honey bees)

Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.

Hyponyms

(species in Apis): See entry for Apis

Derived terms

dwarf honeybee - Apis florea
eastern honey bee - Apis cerana
giant honey bee - Apis dorsata
Himalayan honey bee - Apis dorsata laboriosa
Indonesian honey bee - Apis dorsata binghami
western honeybee - Apis mellifera

Translations

honey bee

Alabama: foho
Arabic: نَحْل‎ m (naḥl)
Armenian: մեղու (hy) (mełu)
Assamese: মৌমাখি (moumakhi)
Bashkir: бал ҡорто (bal qorto)
Bengali: মৌমাছি (bn) (moumachi)
Bulgarian: медоносна пчела f (medonosna pčela)
Catalan: abella de la mel f, abella mel·lífera f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蜜蜂 (zh) (mìfēng)
Czech: včela medonosná (cs) f
Dutch: honingbij (nl) f, bij (nl) f, imme (nl) f
Esperanto: mielabelo
Finnish: hunajamehiläinen (fi), tarhamehiläinen (fi), mehiläinen (fi)
French: abeille à miel (fr) f, abeille (fr) f
German: Honigbiene (de) f
Gujarati: મધમાખી f (madhmākhī)
Hebrew: דבורת הדבש‎ f (dvorát hadvásh)
Hindi: मधुमक्खी (hi) f (madhumakkhī)
Icelandic: býfluga (is) f
Indonesian: lebah madu (id)
Irish: beach mheala f, seileán m (wild)
Italian: ape da miele f, ape domestica (it) f
Japanese: 蜜蜂 (ja) (みつばち, mitsubachi)
Korean: 꿀벌 (ko) (kkulbeol)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مێشھەنگوین‎ (mêşhenguyn)
Northern Kurdish: mêşhingiv (ku)
Malayalam: തേനീച്ച (ml) (tēnīcca)
Manx: shellan molley m
Marathi: मधमाशी f (madhmāśī)
Navajo: tsísʼná
Norwegian:
Bokmål: honningbie m or f
Nynorsk: honningbie f
Persian: زنبور عسل‎ (fa) (zanbur-e 'asal)
Polish: pszczoła (pl) f miodna (pl)
Portuguese: abelha doméstica (pt) f, abelha de mel f
Russian: пчела́ медоносная (pčelá medonosnaja), медоно́сная пчела́ (medonósnaja pčelá)
Scottish Gaelic: seillean-mil m, seillean-meala m, seillean-sgip m
Spanish: abeja (es) f, abeja melífera (es) f, abeja de miel f
Swedish: honungsbi (sv) n
Tagalog: pukyot
Tajik: занбӯри асал (zanbüri asal)
Telugu: తేనెటీగ (te) (tēneṭīga)
Turkish: bal arısı (tr)
Uyghur: ھەسەل ھەرىسى‎ (hesel herisi), بال ھەرىسى‎ (bal herisi)
Welsh: gwenynen (cy) f, gwenynen fêl (cy) f
Zazaki: hıng (diq) f