noun
Meaning 1
The formal academic study of folklore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
folkloristics
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History
Etymology
From folklorist + -ics. Also by surface analysis, folklore + -istics.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: բանագիտություն (banagitutʻyun) — formal academic study of folklore
- Azerbaijani: folklorşünaslıq — formal academic study of folklore
- Azerbaijani: folkloristika — formal academic study of folklore
- Belarusian: фалькларыстыка (falʹklarystyka) — formal academic study of folklore
- Bulgarian: фолклори́стика (folklorístika) — formal academic study of folklore
- Chinese Mandarin: 民俗學 /民俗学 (mínsúxué) — formal academic study of folklore
- Chuvash: фольклористику (folʹkloristik̬u) — formal academic study of folklore
- Czech: folkloristika — formal academic study of folklore
- Estonian: folkloristika — formal academic study of folklore
- Estonian: rahvaluuleteadus — formal academic study of folklore
- Finnish: folkloristiikka — formal academic study of folklore
- Finnish: perinteentutkimus — formal academic study of folklore
- Georgian: ფოლკლორისტიკა (polḳlorisṭiḳa) — formal academic study of folklore
- German: Volkskunde — formal academic study of folklore
- German: Folkloristik — formal academic study of folklore
- Greek: λαογραφία (laografía) — formal academic study of folklore
- Hungarian: folklorisztika — formal academic study of folklore
- Icelandic: þjóðfræði — formal academic study of folklore
- Icelandic: þjóðsagnafræði — formal academic study of folklore
- Italian: studi folcloristici — formal academic study of folklore
- Italian: demologia — formal academic study of folklore
- Japanese: 民俗学 (minzokugaku) — formal academic study of folklore
- Kazakh: фольклортану (folklortanu) — formal academic study of folklore
- Kyrgyz: фольклористика (folkloristika) — formal academic study of folklore
- Latvian: folkloristika — formal academic study of folklore
- Macedonian: фолклористика (folkloristika) — formal academic study of folklore
- Polish: folklorystyka — formal academic study of folklore
- Portuguese: folclorismo — formal academic study of folklore
- Portuguese: folclorística — formal academic study of folklore
- Romanian: folcloristică — formal academic study of folklore
- Russian: фольклори́стика (folʹklorístika) — formal academic study of folklore
- Serbo-Croatian: folkloristika — formal academic study of folklore
- Slovene: folkloristika — formal academic study of folklore
- Spanish: ciencia del folklore — formal academic study of folklore
- Swedish: folkloristik — formal academic study of folklore
- Tatar: фольклористика (folʹkloristiqa) — formal academic study of folklore
- Turkish: halk bilimi — formal academic study of folklore
- Ukrainian: фольклори́стика (folʹklorýstyka) — formal academic study of folklore