mineralogy

mineralogy

English

Alternative forms

• minerology (rare)

Etymology

mineral +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪnəˈɹɒləd͡ʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪnəˈɹɑləd͡ʒi/

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Noun

mineralogy (countable and uncountable, plural mineralogies)

1. (petrology) The branch of petrology that studies minerals.
2. Mineral materials.
3. A treatise on mineralogy.

Derived terms

• mineralogical
• mineralogist

Translations

the study or science of minerals

Afrikaans: mineralogie (af), delfstofkunde Armenian: հանքաբանություն (hy) (hankʿabanutʿyun) Asturian: mineraloxía f Azerbaijani: mineralogiya Basque: mineralogia (eu) Belarusian: мінерало́гія f (minjeralóhija) Breton: maenoniezh (br) f Bulgarian: минерало́гия f (mineralógija) Burmese: သတ္တုဗေဒ (my) (sattu.beda.) Catalan: mineralogia (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 礦物學, 矿物学 (kwong3 mat6 hok6) Mandarin: 礦物學／矿物学 (zh) (kuàngwù xué) Min Nan: 礦物學, 矿物学 (khòng-bu̍t-ha̍k) Czech: mineralogie (cs) f Danish: mineralogi (da) Dutch: mineralogie (nl) f Esperanto: mineralogio Estonian: mineraloogia Faroese: steinafrøði f Finnish: mineralogia (fi) French: minéralogie (fr) f Galician: mineraloxía (gl) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Mineralogie (de) f Greek: ορυκτολογία (el) f (oryktología) Hebrew: מינרלוגיה‎ (he) f (mineralogya) Hungarian: ásványtan (hu), mineralógia (hu) Icelandic: steindafræði Ido: mineralogio (io) Indonesian: mineralogi (id) Interlingua: mineralogia Irish: mianreolaíocht f Italian: mineralogia (it) f Japanese: 鉱物学 (ja) (こうぶつがく, kōbutsugaku) Kazakh: минералогия (mineralogiä) Korean: 광물학(鑛物學) (ko) (gwangmulhak) Kyrgyz: минералогия (mineralogiya) Latvian: mineraloģija Lithuanian: mineralogija f Luxembourgish: mineralogie Malayalam: ധാതുവിജ്ഞാനീയം (ml) (dhātuvijñānīyaṃ) Norwegian: Bokmål: mineralogi m Nynorsk: mineralogi m Persian: کانی‌شناسی‎ (kâni-šenâsi) Polish: mineralogia (pl) f Portuguese: mineralogia (pt) f Romanian: mineralogie (ro) f Russian: минерало́гия (ru) f (mineralógija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: минералогија f Roman: mineralogija (sh) f Slovak: mineralógia (sk) f Slovene: mineralogija (sl) f Spanish: mineralogía (es) f Swedish: mineralogi (sv) c Tagalog: lupangkapan Telugu: ఖనిజశాస్త్రము (khanijaśāstramu) Turkish: mineraloji (tr) Ukrainian: мінерало́гія f (mineralóhija) Vietnamese: khoáng vật học (vi) (礦物學) Volapük: minav (vo)

See also

• gemology
• Category:en:Mineralogy
• petrography