museum

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mjuːˈziːəm/
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• General-American: /mjuˈziəm/
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• US, dialectal: /mjuˈzim/
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• US, dialectal: /mjuˈzæm/
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• South-Asia: /ˈmju.zɪ.jəm/
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• rhymes with -iːəm
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• CMU ARPABET: M Y UW0 Z IY1 AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: M Y UW1 Z IY0 AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin Mūsēum, from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”) + -εῖον (-eîon, noun-forming suffix meaning “place or building associated with a specific purpose or person”). By surface analysis, Muse + -eum.

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of mosaic.

163 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: museum — building or institution
• Albanian: muzeum — building or institution
• Amharic: ቤተ መዘክር (betä mäzäkr) — building or institution
• Arabic: مَتْحَف (matḥaf) — building or institution
• Chadian Arabic: موزي (mūzē) — building or institution
• Arabic: متحف (mátḥaf) — building or institution
• Arabic: متحف (mutḥaf, matḥaf) — building or institution
• Arabic: متحف (mátḥaf) — building or institution
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܥܸܬܩܹ̈ܐ (bēt ʿitqe) — building or institution
• Armenian: թանգարան (tʻangaran) — building or institution
• Assamese: যাদুঘৰ (zadughor) — building or institution
• Asturian: muséu — building or institution
• Azerbaijani: عجايبخانه (ajāyibkhāna) — building or institution
• Azerbaijani: muzey — building or institution
• Bashkir: музей (muzey) — building or institution
• Basque: museo — building or institution
• Belarusian: музе́й (muzjéj) — building or institution
• Belarusian: музэ́й (muzéj) — building or institution
• Bengali: জাদুঘর (jadughor) — building or institution
• Bulgarian: музе́й (muzéj) — building or institution
• Burmese: ပြတိုက် (pra.tuik) — building or institution
• Carpathian Rusyn: музей (muzej) — building or institution
• Catalan: museu — building or institution
• Chechen: музей (muzej) — building or institution
• Chinese Cantonese: 博物館 /博物馆 — building or institution
• Chinese: музей (muziəy) — building or institution
• Chinese: бәвугуан (bəvuguan) — building or institution
• Eastern Min Chinese: 博物館 /博物馆 (báuk-ŭk-guāng) — building or institution
• Hakka Chinese: 博物館 /博物馆 (pok-vu̍t-kón) — building or institution
• Chinese: 博物館 /博物馆 (phok-bu̍t-koán) — building or institution
• Chinese Mandarin: 博物館 /博物馆 (bówùguǎn) — building or institution
• Wu Chinese: 博物館 /博物馆 (7poq-veq-kuoe) — building or institution
• Chuvash: музей (muzej) — building or institution
• Czech: muzeum — building or institution
• Danish: museum — building or institution
• Central Dusun: muzium — building or institution
• Dutch: museum — building or institution
• Esperanto: muzeo — building or institution
• Estonian: muuseum — building or institution
• Finnish: museo — building or institution
• French: musée — building or institution
• Galician: museu — building or institution
• Galician: museo — building or institution
• Georgian: მუზეუმი (muzeumi) — building or institution
• German: Museum — building or institution
• Greek: μουσείο (mouseío) — building or institution
• Gujarati: સંગ્રહસ્થાન (saṅgrahasthān) — building or institution
• Gujarati: સંગ્રહાલય (saṅgrahālya) — building or institution
• Haitian Creole: mize — building or institution
• Hawaiian: hale hōʻikeʻike — building or institution
• Hebrew: מוּזֵיאוֹן (muze'on) — building or institution
• Hindi: संग्रहालय (saṅgrahālay) — building or institution
• Hindi: म्यूज़ियम (myūziyam) — building or institution
• Hindi: अजायबघर (ajāyabghar) — building or institution
• Hungarian: múzeum — building or institution
• Icelandic: safn — building or institution
• Indonesian: museum — building or institution
• Ingrian: muuzeja — building or institution
• Interlingua: museo — building or institution
• Irish: iarsmalann — building or institution
• Irish: músaem — building or institution
• Italian: museo — building or institution
• Japanese: 博物館 (hakubutsukan) — building or institution
• Japanese: 美術館 (bijutsukan) — building or institution
• Kannada: ಒಡವೆಮನೆ (oḍavemane) — building or institution
• Kazakh: мұражай (mūrajai) — building or institution
• Kazakh: музей (muzei) — building or institution
• Khmer: សារមន្ទីរ (saaraʼmŭəntii) — building or institution
• Korean: 박물관 (bangmulgwan) — building or institution
• Korean: 미술관 (misulgwan) — building or institution
• Central Kurdish: عەنتیکە خانە ('entîke xane) — building or institution
• Central Kurdish: مووزەخانە (mûzexane) — building or institution
• Northern Kurdish: muze — building or institution
• Northern Kurdish: muzexane — building or institution
• Northern Kurdish: kevnarxane — building or institution
• Northern Kurdish: antîkxane — building or institution
• Kyrgyz: музей (muzey) — building or institution
• Kyrgyz: мураскана (muraskana) — building or institution
• Lao: ຫໍພິພິດຕະພັນ (hǭ phi phit ta phan) — building or institution
• Lao: ພິພິດທະພັນ (phi phit tha phan) — building or institution
• Latin: mūsēum — building or institution
• Latvian: muzejs — building or institution
• Lingao: bɔk8 vət8 kuan4 — building or institution
• Lithuanian: muziejus — building or institution
• Livonian: muzēj — building or institution
• Luxembourgish: Musée — building or institution
• Macedonian: музе́ј (muzéj) — building or institution
• Malay: ajaibkhanah — building or institution
• Malay: muzium — building or institution
• Malay: museum — building or institution
• Malayalam: സംഗ്രഹാലയം (saṅgrahālayaṁ) — building or institution
• Malayalam: കാഴ്ചബംഗ്ലാവ് (kāḻcabaṅglāvŭ) — building or institution
• Malayalam: മ്യൂസിയം (myūsiyaṁ) — building or institution
• Māori: whare taonga (pupuri) — building or institution
• Māori: muheama — building or institution
• Māori: whare tongarewa — building or institution
• Marathi: वस्तुसंग्रहालय (vastusaṅgrahālay) — building or institution
• Marathi: संग्रहालय (saṅgrahālay) — building or institution
• Mongolian: музей (muzej) — building or institution
• Navajo: tʼáadoo leʼé danílʼį́ bił hazʼą́ — building or institution
• Nepali: संग्रहालय (saṅgrahālaya) — building or institution
• Norman: musée — building or institution
• Norwegian Bokmål: museum — building or institution
• Norwegian Nynorsk: museum — building or institution
• Occitan: musèu — building or institution
• Odia: ମିଉଜିଅମ୍ (miujiam) — building or institution
• Ojibwe: dibaajimowin-waakaa'igan — building or institution
• Old English: māþmhūs — building or institution
• Ossetian: музей (muzej) — building or institution
• Pannonian Rusyn: музей (muzej) — building or institution
• Pashto: موزيم (mozyam) — building or institution
• Dari: مُوزِیَم (mūziyam) — building or institution
• Iranian Persian: موزِه (muze) — building or institution
• Polish: muzeum — building or institution
• Portuguese: museu — building or institution
• Punjabi: ਮਿਊਜ਼ੀਅਮ (miūzīama) — building or institution
• Romanian: muzeu — building or institution
• Russian: музе́й (muzéj) — building or institution
• Northern Sami: musea — building or institution
• Serbo-Croatian: му̀зеј — building or institution
• Serbo-Croatian: mùzej — building or institution
• Sicilian: museu — building or institution
• Sinhalese: කෞතුකාගාරය (kautukāgāraya) — building or institution
• Slovak: múzeum — building or institution
• Slovene: muzej — building or institution
• Spanish: museo — building or institution
• Swahili: makumbusho — building or institution
• Swedish: museum — building or institution
• Tagalog: museo — building or institution
• Tajik: осорхона (osorxona) — building or institution
• Tajik: музей (muzey) — building or institution
• Tamil: அருங்காட்சியகம் (aruṅkāṭciyakam) — building or institution
• Tatar: музей (muzey) — building or institution
• Telugu: సంగ్రహాలయం (saṅgrahālayaṁ) — building or institution
• Tetum: muzeu — building or institution
• Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์ (pí-pít-tá-pan) — building or institution
• Thai: พิพิธภัณฑสถาน (pí-pít-tá-pan-tá-sà-tǎan) — building or institution
• Tibetan: འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང ('grem ston khang) — building or institution
• Tibetan: འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཁང ('grems ston khang) — building or institution
• Tigrinya: ቤተ መዘክር (betä mäzäkr) — building or institution
• Turkish: müze — building or institution
• Turkmen: muzeý — building or institution
• Udmurt: музей (muźej) — building or institution
• Ukrainian: музе́й (muzéj) — building or institution
• Urdu: عَجائِب گَھر ('ajāib ghar) — building or institution
• Urdu: عَجائِب خانَہ ('ajāib xāna) — building or institution
• Urdu: مْیُوزِیَم (myūziyam) — building or institution
• Uyghur: مۇزېي (muzëy) — building or institution
• Uzbek: muzey — building or institution
• Uzbek: muzaxona — building or institution
• Venetan: muxèo — building or institution
• Vietnamese: nhà bảo tàng — building or institution
• Vietnamese: viện bảo tàng — building or institution
• Volapük: mused — building or institution
• Volapük: musoföp — building or institution
• Walloon: muzêye — building or institution
• Welsh: amgueddfa — building or institution
• Yakut: музей (muzey) — building or institution
• Yakut: мусуой (musuoy) — building or institution
• Yiddish: מוזיי (muzey) — building or institution
• Zazaki: muze — building or institution
• Zazaki: eserxane — building or institution
• Zhuang: bozvuzgvanj — building or institution