bumblebee

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• /ˈbʌmbəlˌbiː/
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1520s from bumble + bee, replacing Middle English humbul-be. Merged with Middle English bombeln (“to boom, buzz”), in the late 14th century. The name of the drink is a semantic loan from Ukrainian джміль (džmilʹ).

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• Afrikaans: hommel — genus of bee
• Dupaningan Agta: abuyog — genus of bee
• Ahtna: tsʼendziidi — genus of bee
• Albanian: bumballë — genus of bee
• Southern Altai: јер аару (ǰer aaru) — genus of bee
• Western Apache: tdʼidáá łtsʼogé — genus of bee
• Arabic: طَنَّانَة (ṭannāna) — genus of bee
• Arabic: نَحْلَة (naḥla) — genus of bee
• Aragonese: bombolón — genus of bee
• Armenian: իշամեղու (išameġu) — genus of bee
• Armenian: բրետ (bret) — genus of bee
• Aromanian: zângânaru — genus of bee
• Asturian: babarón — genus of bee
• Asturian: abeyón — genus of bee
• Bashkir: иңкеш (iñkeş) — genus of bee
• Basque: erlastar — genus of bee
• Belarusian: чмель (čmjelʹ) — genus of bee
• Breton: sardonenn — genus of bee
• Bulgarian: земна пчела́ (zemna pčelá) — genus of bee
• Burmese: ပိတုန်း (pi.tun:) — genus of bee
• Cahuilla: kungsexwet — genus of bee
• Catalan: borinot — genus of bee
• Catalan: abellot — genus of bee
• Cebuano: buyog — genus of bee
• Chechen: бумбари (bumbari) — genus of bee
• Cheyenne: tâhpe'âséhahnoma — genus of bee
• Chinese Cantonese: 熊蜂 — genus of bee
• Chinese: 金瓜蜂 (kim-koe-phang) — genus of bee
• Chinese Mandarin: 大黃蜂 /大黄蜂 (dàhuángfēng) — genus of bee
• Chinese Mandarin: 熊蜂 (xióngfēng) — genus of bee
• Chukchi: ӄоймароӄыр (qojmaroqyr) — genus of bee
• Chuvash: тӗкӗлтура (tĕk̬ĕlt̬ura) — genus of bee
• Cornish: gwenen sia — genus of bee
• Corsican: bufonu — genus of bee
• Czech: čmelák — genus of bee
• Danish: humlebi — genus of bee
• Dutch: hommel — genus of bee
• Middle Dutch: dorne — genus of bee
• Dzongkha: སྦྱངམ་པོ་ཏོམ (sbyangm po tom) — genus of bee
• Erzya: мода мекш (moda mekš) — genus of bee
• Esperanto: burdo — genus of bee
• Estonian: kimalane — genus of bee
• Faroese: humla — genus of bee
• Finnish: kimalainen — genus of bee
• French: bourdon — genus of bee
• Old French: bordon — genus of bee
• North Frisian: imkönang — genus of bee
• West-Frisian: holder — genus of bee
• Galician: abesouro — genus of bee
• Galician: abesoiro — genus of bee
• Georgian: ბაზი (bazi) — genus of bee
• German: Hummel — genus of bee
• Greek: βόμβος (vómvos) — genus of bee
• Greek: βομβίνος (vomvínos) — genus of bee
• Greek: μπάμπουρας (bámpouras) — genus of bee
• Ancient Greek: βομβυλιός (bombuliós) — genus of bee
• Greenlandic: igutsak — genus of bee
• Gujarati: બબલબી (babalbī) — genus of bee
• Hanunoo: alibuyog — genus of bee
• Hebrew: דבור (dabur) — genus of bee
• Hiligaynon: agogóling — genus of bee
• Hindi: भँवर (bhãvar) — genus of bee
• Hindi: भँवरा (bhãvrā) — genus of bee
• Hindi: भ्रमर (bhramar) — genus of bee
• Hindi: भृंग (bhŕṅg) — genus of bee
• Hindi: भौंरा (bha͠urā) — genus of bee
• Hungarian: dongó — genus of bee
• Hungarian: poszméh — genus of bee
• Icelandic: hunangsfluga — genus of bee
• Ido: burdono — genus of bee
• Ingrian: kimalain — genus of bee
• Ingrian: peltokimalain — genus of bee
• Ingrian: maakimalain — genus of bee
• Ingush: бурилгамоза (burilgamoza) — genus of bee
• Irish: bumbóg — genus of bee
• Irish: beach fhiáin — genus of bee
• Italian: bombo — genus of bee
• Japanese: 円花蜂 (maruhanabachi) — genus of bee
• Japanese: 丸花蜂 (maruhanabachi) — genus of bee
• Japanese: マルハナバチ (maruhanabachi) — genus of bee
• Kapampangan: tamumu — genus of bee
• Karelian: kimaleh — genus of bee
• Kashmiri: بۆمبُر (bombur) — genus of bee
• Kazakh: түкті ара (tüktı ara) — genus of bee
• Khowar: بوُمبُر (búmbur) — genus of bee
• Korean: 뒝벌 (dwengbeol) — genus of bee
• Korean: 뒤영벌 (dwiyeongbeol) — genus of bee
• Korean: 호박벌 (hobakbeol) — genus of bee
• Northern Kurdish: bivbivink — genus of bee
• Kyrgyz: жапан аары (japan aarı) — genus of bee
• Ladin: tavan — genus of bee
• Latgalian: kamane — genus of bee
• Latin: bombus — genus of bee
• Latvian: kamene — genus of bee
• Lithuanian: kamanė — genus of bee
• Livvi: vuoksahaine — genus of bee
• Low German: Hummel — genus of bee
• Low German: Plüüschmoors — genus of bee
• Middle Low German: dorne — genus of bee
• Luxembourgish: Bommel — genus of bee
• Macedonian: бумбар (bumbar) — genus of bee
• Maltese: żunżan — genus of bee
• Manx: shellan breck — genus of bee
• Manx: shellan meay — genus of bee
• Māori: pīrorohū — genus of bee
• Marathi: भोंवर (bhouvar) — genus of bee
• Marathi: भृंग (bhŕṅga) — genus of bee
• Marathi: भ्रमर (bhramar) — genus of bee
• Eastern Mari: ошымшӱлыш (ošymšülyš) — genus of bee
• Western Mari: пыйылмы (pyjylmy) — genus of bee
• Nahuatl: xīcohtli — genus of bee
• Navajo: tsísʼnátsoh — genus of bee
• Nepali: भमरा (bhamarā) — genus of bee
• Nogai: кабын (kabın) — genus of bee
• Norman: bourde — genus of bee
• Norwegian Bokmål: humle — genus of bee
• Norwegian Nynorsk: humle — genus of bee
• Occitan: abelhard — genus of bee
• Old English: dora — genus of bee
• Mezquital-Otomi: gäni — genus of bee
• Mezquital-Otomi: hmini — genus of bee
• Pannonian Rusyn: донґов (dongov) — genus of bee
• Pashto: بورا (bawrā) — genus of bee
• Pennsylvania German: Hummel — genus of bee
• Persian: برمر (barmar) — genus of bee
• Plautdietsch: Hommel — genus of bee
• Polabian: stamil — genus of bee
• Polish: trzmiel — genus of bee
• Polish: bąk — genus of bee
• Portuguese: abelhão — genus of bee
• Portuguese: mamangaba — genus of bee
• Portuguese: mangangá — genus of bee
• Prakrit: 𑀪𑀫𑀭 (bhamara) — genus of bee
• Punjabi: ਭੰਵਰ (bhãvar) — genus of bee
• Punjabi: ਭੰਵਰਾ (bhãvrā) — genus of bee
• Quechua: wayrunq'u — genus of bee
• Romanian: bondar — genus of bee
• Romanian: bărzăun — genus of bee
• Russian: шмель (šmelʹ) — genus of bee
• Rwanda-Rundi: ivubi — genus of bee
• Saanich: SEMSEMÍ ̧E — genus of bee
• Northern Sami: uvlu — genus of bee
• Samogitian: kamonie — genus of bee
• Samogitian: kamanė — genus of bee
• Sanskrit: भ्रमर (bhramara) — genus of bee
• Scots: bum-bee — genus of bee
• Scottish Gaelic: seillean mòr — genus of bee
• Scottish Gaelic: seillean-dubh — genus of bee
• Serbo-Croatian: бу̏мба̄р — genus of bee
• Serbo-Croatian: bȕmbār — genus of bee
• Shor: оомалай — genus of bee
• Shuswap: xgéyeqen̓ — genus of bee
• Slovak: čmeľ — genus of bee
• Slovak: čmeliak — genus of bee
• Slovene: čmrlj — genus of bee
• Lower Sorbian: tśmjel — genus of bee
• Lower Sorbian: bombak — genus of bee
• Upper Sorbian: čmjeła — genus of bee
• Spanish: abejorro — genus of bee
• Spanish: abejarrón — genus of bee
• Spanish: abejón — genus of bee
• Spanish: moscardón — genus of bee
• Spanish: jicote — genus of bee
• Swedish: humla — genus of bee
• Tagalog: himbubuyog — genus of bee
• Tagalog: bubuyog — genus of bee
• Tajik: говзанбӯр (govzanbür) — genus of bee
• Tamil: வண்டுத்தேனீ (vaṇṭuttēṉī) — genus of bee
• Tarifit: iyarẓẓi — genus of bee
• Telugu: తుమ్మెద (tummeda) — genus of bee
• Thai: ผึ้งมีขนตัวใหญ่ที่ส่งเสียงหึ่งๆ (pêung mee kŏn dtua yài tĕe sòng sĭang hèung-hèung) — genus of bee
• Thai: ผึ้งหึ่ง (pʉ̂ng-hʉ̀ng) — genus of bee
• Turkish: hezen arısı — genus of bee
• Turkish: bombus — genus of bee
• Turkish: tüylü arı — genus of bee
• Udmurt: майсы (majsy) — genus of bee
• Ukrainian: джміль (džmilʹ) — genus of bee
• Unami: tùkòmëwe — genus of bee
• Urdu: بھنور (bhãvar) — genus of bee
• Urdu: بھنورا (bhãvrā) — genus of bee
• Urdu: بھرمر (bhramar) — genus of bee
• Uzbek: tukli ari — genus of bee
• Veps: učubras — genus of bee
• Veps: ürgiš — genus of bee
• Vietnamese: ong nghệ — genus of bee
• Vilamovian: humuł — genus of bee
• Waray-Waray: alimbubuyog — genus of bee
• Welsh: cacynen — genus of bee
• Welsh: cachgi bwm — genus of bee
• Welsh: gwenynen wyllt — genus of bee
• Welsh: cacynen y tewlaeth — genus of bee
• West Flemish: hommel — genus of bee
• Yakut: тойон ыҥырыа (toyon ïŋïrïa) — genus of bee
• Yiddish: זשומזשע (zhumzhe) — genus of bee
• Yucatec Maya: báalam kaab — genus of bee
• Isthmus Zapotec: bezu — genus of bee
• Ocotlán Zapotec: bezoj — genus of bee
• Polish: kolor trzmielowy — mid-yellow colour
• Polish: trzmiel — iced drink of layered orange juice and espresso
• Ukrainian: джміль (džmilʹ) — iced drink of layered orange juice and espresso