honey bee

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Inherited from Middle English hony bee.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Alabama: foho — honey bee
• Albanian: bletë — honey bee
• Arabic: نَحْل (naḥl) — honey bee
• Arabic: نَحْلَة الْعَسَلِ — honey bee
• Aramaic: ܕܒܫܬܐ (dabbāštā) — honey bee
• Armenian: մեղու (meġu) — honey bee
• Assamese: মৌমাখি (moumakhi) — honey bee
• Asturian: abeya — honey bee
• Bashkir: бал ҡорто (bal qorto) — honey bee
• Bengali: মৌমাছি (mōumachi) — honey bee
• Bulgarian: медоносна пчела (medonosna pčela) — honey bee
• Catalan: abella de la mel — honey bee
• Catalan: abella mel·lífera — honey bee
• Chinese Mandarin: 蜜蜂 (mìfēng) — honey bee
• Choctaw: foi ishki — honey bee
• Czech: včela medonosná — honey bee
• Dutch: honingbij — honey bee
• Dutch: bij — honey bee
• Dutch: imme — honey bee
• Esperanto: mielabelo — honey bee
• Finnish: hunajamehiläinen — honey bee
• Finnish: tarhamehiläinen — honey bee
• Finnish: mehiläinen — honey bee
• French: abeille à miel — honey bee
• French: abeille — honey bee
• Georgian: მეთაფლია ფუტკარი (metaplia puṭḳari) — honey bee
• Georgian: შინაური ფუტკარი (šinauri puṭḳari) — honey bee
• German: Honigbiene — honey bee
• Gujarati: મધમાખી (madhmākhī) — honey bee
• Hebrew: דבורת הדבש (dvorát hadvásh) — honey bee
• Hindi: मधुमक्खी (madhumakkhī) — honey bee
• Icelandic: býfluga — honey bee
• Indonesian: lebah madu — honey bee
• Irish: beach mheala — honey bee
• Irish: seileán — honey bee
• Italian: ape da miele — honey bee
• Italian: ape domestica — honey bee
• Japanese: 蜜蜂 (mitsubachi) — honey bee
• Javanese: tawon madu — honey bee
• Javanese: tawon undhuhan — honey bee
• Kashmiri: ماچھ تُلٕر (māch tulụr) — honey bee
• Korean: 꿀벌 (kkulbeol) — honey bee
• Central Kurdish: مێشھەنگوین (mêşhenguyn) — honey bee
• Northern Kurdish: mêşhingiv — honey bee
• Latin: apis — honey bee
• Malayalam: തേനീച്ച (tēnīcca) — honey bee
• Manx: shellan molley — honey bee
• Marathi: मधमाशी (madhmāśī) — honey bee
• Navajo: tsísʼná — honey bee
• Ndonga: onyushi class 9 — honey bee
• Norwegian Bokmål: honningbie — honey bee
• Norwegian Nynorsk: honningbie — honey bee
• Persian: زنبور عسل (zanbur-e 'asal) — honey bee
• Polish: pszczoła miodna — honey bee
• Portuguese: abelha doméstica — honey bee
• Portuguese: abelha de mel — honey bee
• Russian: пчела́ медоносная (pčelá medonosnaja) — honey bee
• Russian: медоно́сная пчела́ (medonósnaja pčelá) — honey bee
• Scottish Gaelic: seillean-mil — honey bee
• Scottish Gaelic: seillean-meala — honey bee
• Scottish Gaelic: seillean-sgip — honey bee
• Spanish: abeja — honey bee
• Spanish: abeja melífera — honey bee
• Spanish: abeja de miel — honey bee
• Swedish: honungsbi — honey bee
• Tagalog: pukyot — honey bee
• Tajik: занбӯри асал (zanbür-i asal) — honey bee
• Tamil: தேனீ (tēṉī) — honey bee
• Telugu: తేనెటీగ (tēneṭīga) — honey bee
• Turkish: bal arısı — honey bee
• Uyghur: ھەسەل ھەرىسى (hesel herisi) — honey bee
• Uyghur: بال ھەرىسى (bal herisi) — honey bee
• Welsh: gwenynen — honey bee
• Welsh: gwenynen fêl — honey bee
• Zazaki: hınge (diq) — honey bee