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/ˌmɪnəˈralədʒi/
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M IH2 N ER0 AA1 L AH0 JH IY0
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The branch of petrology that studies minerals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences, petrology
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Mineral materials.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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A treatise on mineralogy.
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the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them
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Broader terms: geology
From New Latin minerālogia, from Medieval Latin minera (“mineral”) + Latin -logia (“study”). By surface analysis, mineral + -logy.
Across languages
Translations
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Afrikaans :
mineralogie
— the study or science of minerals
Afrikaans :
delfstofkunde
— the study or science of minerals
Armenian :
հանքաբանություն
(hankʻabanutʻyun)
— the study or science of minerals
Asturian :
mineraloxía
— the study or science of minerals
Azerbaijani :
mineralogiya
— the study or science of minerals
Basque :
mineralogia
— the study or science of minerals
Belarusian :
мінерало́гія
(minjeralóhija)
— the study or science of minerals
Breton :
maenoniezh
— the study or science of minerals
Bulgarian :
минерало́гия
(mineralógija)
— the study or science of minerals
Burmese :
သတ္တုဗေဒ
(sattu.beda.)
— the study or science of minerals
Catalan :
mineralogia
— the study or science of minerals
Chinese Cantonese :
礦物學 /矿物学
(kwong3 mat6 hok6)
— the study or science of minerals
Chinese :
礦物學 /矿物学
(khòng-bu̍t-ha̍k)
— the study or science of minerals
Chinese Mandarin :
礦物學 /矿物学
(kuàngwù xué)
— the study or science of minerals
Czech :
mineralogie
— the study or science of minerals
Danish :
mineralogi
— the study or science of minerals
Dutch :
mineralogie
— the study or science of minerals
Esperanto :
mineralogio
— the study or science of minerals
Estonian :
mineraloogia
— the study or science of minerals
Faroese :
steinafrøði
— the study or science of minerals
Finnish :
mineralogia
— the study or science of minerals
French :
minéralogie
— the study or science of minerals
Galician :
mineraloxía
— the study or science of minerals
German :
Mineralogie
— the study or science of minerals
Greek :
ορυκτολογία
(oryktología)
— the study or science of minerals
Hebrew :
מינרלוגיה
(mineralogya)
— the study or science of minerals
Hungarian :
ásványtan
— the study or science of minerals
Hungarian :
mineralógia
— the study or science of minerals
Icelandic :
steindafræði
— the study or science of minerals
Ido :
mineralogio
— the study or science of minerals
Indonesian :
mineralogi
— the study or science of minerals
Interlingua :
mineralogia
— the study or science of minerals
Irish :
mianreolaíocht
— the study or science of minerals
Italian :
mineralogia
— the study or science of minerals
Japanese :
鉱物学
(kōbutsugaku)
— the study or science of minerals
Kazakh :
минералогия
(mineralogiä)
— the study or science of minerals
Korean :
광물학
(gwangmulhak)
— the study or science of minerals
Kyrgyz :
минералогия
(mineralogiya)
— the study or science of minerals
Latvian :
mineraloģija
— the study or science of minerals
Lithuanian :
mineralogija
— the study or science of minerals
Luxembourgish :
mineralogie
— the study or science of minerals
Malayalam :
ധാതുവിജ്ഞാനീയം
(dhātuvijñānīyaṁ)
— the study or science of minerals
Norwegian Bokmål :
mineralogi
— the study or science of minerals
Norwegian Nynorsk :
mineralogi
— the study or science of minerals
Persian :
کانیشناسی
(kâni-šenâsi)
— the study or science of minerals
Polish :
mineralogia
— the study or science of minerals
Portuguese :
mineralogia
— the study or science of minerals
Romanian :
mineralogie
— the study or science of minerals
Russian :
минерало́гия
(mineralógija)
— the study or science of minerals
Serbo-Croatian :
минералогија
— the study or science of minerals
Serbo-Croatian :
mineralogija
— the study or science of minerals
Slovak :
mineralógia
— the study or science of minerals
Slovene :
mineralogija
— the study or science of minerals
Spanish :
mineralogía
— the study or science of minerals
Swedish :
mineralogi
— the study or science of minerals
Tagalog :
lupangkapan
— the study or science of minerals
Telugu :
ఖనిజశాస్త్రము
(khanijaśāstramu)
— the study or science of minerals
Turkish :
mineraloji
— the study or science of minerals
Udmurt :
муизтодос
(muiztodos)
— the study or science of minerals
Udmurt :
минералогия
(mińeralogija)
— the study or science of minerals
Ukrainian :
мінерало́гія
(mineralóhija)
— the study or science of minerals
Vietnamese :
khoáng vật học
— the study or science of minerals
Volapük :
minav
— the study or science of minerals