zoology

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; (non standard) enPR: zo͞o-ŏl′-ə-jē
• (UK) IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒlədʒi/; (non standard) IPA^(key): /zuːˈɒlədʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zoʊˈɑlədʒi/; (non standard) IPA^(key): /zuˈɑlədʒi/
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

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

• 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 (ʿilm al-ḥayawān) Aragonese: zoolochía f Armenian: կենդանաբանություն (hy) (kendanabanutʿyun) Asturian: zooloxía f Azerbaijani: zoologiya Belarusian: заалогія f (zaalóhija) Bengali: প্রাণিবিজ্ঞান (praṇibiggan) Breton: loenoniezh (br) f Bulgarian: зоология (bg) f (zoologija) Burmese: သတ္တဗေဒ (my) (satta.beda.) Catalan: zoologia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 動物學 (zh), 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 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 (zoologïya) Khmer: សត្វវិទ្យា (sat vityie) Korean: 동물학 (ko) (dongmurhak) (動物學 (ko))

Kurdish: ajalnasî (ku) f Kyrgyz: зоология (ky) (zoologiya) Latvian: zooloģija f Lithuanian: zoologija (lt) f Macedonian: зоологија f (zoologija) Malay: kaji haiwan, zoologi Malayalam: ജന്തുശാസ്ത്രം (jantuśāstraṃ) Maori: mātai kīrehe Marathi: प्राणिशास्त्र (prāṇiśāstra) Navajo: naaldeehii naalkaah Norwegian: Bokmål: zoologi (no) m Nynorsk: zoologi m Novial: soologia Persian: جانورشناسی‎ (fa) (jânvar-šenâsi) Pitcairn-Norfolk: soo'ologii Polish: zoologia (pl) f Portuguese: zoologia (pt) f Punjabi: ਜੰਤੂ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (jantū vigiān) 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)