bumblebee

See also: bumble-bee

English

Two views of a bumblebee (Bombus terrestris).

Alternative forms

• bumble-bee, bumble bee

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌmbəlˌbiː/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

bumblebee (plural bumblebees)

1. Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.

   Synonyms: dumbledore, humblebee

   • 2008, Christopher Paolini, “Rider and Ra'zac”, in Brisingr, page 69:

     The bumblebee's mane glowed in the morning light—each hair sharp and distinct to Eragon—and its blurred wings generated a gentle bombilation, like a tattoo played on a drum. Pollen powdered the bristles on its legs.

2. A mid yellow, sometimes slightly orange.
3. A layered drink with ice whose main ingredients are orange juice and espresso coffee.

Derived terms

• American bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
• buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
• bumblebee bat
• bumblebee catfish
• bumblebee model
• bumblebee moth
• common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens)
• cuckoo-bumblebee (Bombus (Psithyrus))
• Cullum's bumblebee (Bombus cullumanus)
• early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum)
• forest bumblebee (Bombus sylvicola)
• Franklin's bumblebee (Bombus franklini)
• garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)
• great yellow bumblebee (Bombus distinguendus)
• heath bumblebee (Bombus jonellus)
• large earth bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
• large garden bumblebee (Bombus ruderatus)
• red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
• short-haired bumblebee (Bombus subterraneus)
• small garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)
• Sonoran bumble bee (Bombus sonorus)
• white-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum)

Translations

genus of bee

• Afrikaans: hommel
• Agta:

  Dupaningan Agta: abuyog

• Ahtna: tsʼendziidi
• Albanian: bumballë m
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: јер аару (ǰer aaru)

• Apache:

  Western Apache: tdʼidáá łtsʼogé

• Arabic: طَنَّانَة f (ṭannāna), نَحْلَة f (naḥla)
• Aragonese: bombolón m
• Armenian: իշամեղու (hy) (išameġu), բրետ (hy) (bret)
• Aromanian: zângânaru n
• Asturian: babarón m, abeyón m
• Azerbaijani: eşşəkarası
• Bashkir: иңкеш (eñkiş)
• Basque: erlastar
• Belarusian: чмель m (čmjelʹ)
• Breton: sardonenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: земна пчела́ f (zemna pčelá)
• Burmese: ပိတုန်း (my) (pi.tun:)
• Cahuilla: kungsexwet
• Catalan: borinot (ca) m, abellot (ca) m
• Cebuano: buyog
• Chechen: бумбари (bumbari)
• Cheyenne: tâhpe'âséhahnoma
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 熊蜂 (hung⁴ fung¹)

  Hokkien: 金瓜蜂 (kim-koe-phang)

  Mandarin: 大黃蜂 / 大黄蜂 (zh) (dàhuángfēng), 熊蜂 (zh) (xióngfēng)

• Chukchi: ӄоймароӄыр (qojmaroqyr)
• Chuvash: тӗкӗлтура (tĕk̬ĕlt̬ura)
• Cornish: gwenen sia pl
• Corsican: bufonu m
• Czech: čmelák (cs) m
• Danish: humlebi (da) c
• Dutch: hommel (nl) f

  Middle Dutch: dorne

• Dzongkha: སྦྱངམ་པོ་ཏོམ (sbyangm po tom)
• Erzya: мода мекш (moda mekš)
• Esperanto: burdo (eo)
• Estonian: kimalane
• Faroese: humla f
• Finnish: kimalainen (fi)
• French: bourdon (fr) m

  Old French: bordon m

• Frisian:

  North Frisian: imkönang ?

  West Frisian: holder

• Galician: abesouro (gl) m, abesoiro m
• Georgian: ბაზი (bazi)
• German: Hummel (de) f
• Greek: βόμβος (el) m (vómvos), βομβίνος m (vomvínos), μπάμπουρας (el) m (bámpouras)

  Ancient Greek: βομβυλιός m (bombuliós)

• Greenlandic: igutsak (kl)
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} mamanga

• Gujarati: બબલબી ? (babalbī)
• Hanunoo: alibuyog
• Hebrew: דבור (he) f (dabur)
• Hiligaynon: agogóling
• Hindi: भँवर (hi) m (bhãvar), भँवरा (hi) m (bhãvrā), भ्रमर (hi) m (bhramar), भृंग (hi) m (bhŕṅg), भौंरा m (bha͠urā)
• Hungarian: dongó (hu), poszméh (hu)
• Icelandic: hunangsfluga (is) f
• Ido: burdono (io)
• Ingrian: kimalain, peltokimalain, maakimalain
• Ingush: бурилгамоза (burilgamoza)
• Irish: bumbóg (ga) f, beach fhiáin f
• Italian: bombo (it) m
• Japanese: 円花蜂 (まるはなばち, maruhanabachi), 丸花蜂 (ja) (まるはなばち, maruhanabachi), マルハナバチ (ja) (maruhanabachi)
• Kapampangan: tamumu
• Karelian: kimaleh
• Kashmiri: بۆمبُر m (bombur)
• Kazakh: түкті ара (tükti ara)
• Khowar: بوُمبُر (búmbur)
• Komi:

  Komi-Permyak: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 뒝벌 (ko) (dwengbeol), 뒤영벌 (dwiyeongbeol), 호박벌 (hobakbeol)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bivbivink (ku)

• Kyrgyz: жапан аары (japan aarı)
• Ladin: tavan m
• Latgalian: kamane f
• Latin: bombus m
• Latvian: kamene f
• Lithuanian: kamanė f
• Livvi: vuoksahaine
• Low German:

  German Low German: Hummel f, Plüüschmoors m

  Middle Low German: dorne

• Luxembourgish: Bommel m
• Macedonian: бумбар m (bumbar)
• Maltese: żunżan m
• Mansi:

  Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} ма̄гва̄руп (māgvārup)

• Manx: shellan breck m, shellan meay m
• Māori: pīrorohū
• Marathi: भोंवर ? (bhouvar), भृंग ? (bhruṅga), भ्रमर ? (bhramar)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: ошымшӱлыш (ošymšülyš)

  Western Mari: пыйылмы (pyjylmy)

• Nahuatl: xīcohtli (nah)
• Navajo: tsísʼnátsoh
• Nepali: भमरा (bhamarā)
• Nogai: кабын (kabın)
• Norman: bourde f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humle (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: humle f

• Occitan: abelhard (oc) m
• Old English: dora m
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Otomi:

  Mezquital Otomi: gäni, hmini

• Pannonian Rusyn: донґов m (dongov)
• Pashto: بورا (ps) (bawrā)
• Pennsylvania German: Hummel f
• Persian: برمر (barmar)
• Plautdietsch: Hommel m
• Polabian: stamil m
• Polish: trzmiel (pl) m, bąk (pl) m
• Portuguese: abelhão (pt) m, mamangaba (pt) f, mangangá (pt) f
• Prakrit:

  Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀪𑀫𑀭 m (bhamara)

• Punjabi: ਭੰਵਰ m (bhãvar), ਭੰਵਰਾ m (bhãvarā)
• Quechua: wayrunq'u
• Romanian: bondar (ro) m, bărzăun (ro) m
• Russian: шмель (ru) m (šmelʹ)
• Rwanda-Rundi: ivubi
• Saanich: SEMSEM͸E
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: uvlu

• Samogitian: kamonie f, kamanė f
• Sanskrit: भ्रमर (sa) m (bhramara)
• Scots: bum-bee
• Scottish Gaelic: seillean mòr m, seillean-dubh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бу̏мба̄р m

  Latin: bȕmbār (sh) m

• Shor: оомалай
• Shuswap: xgéyeqen̓
• Slovak: čmeľ (sk) m, čmeliak m
• Slovene: čmrlj (sl) m anim
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tśmjel m, bombak m

  Upper Sorbian: čmjeła f

• Spanish: abejorro (es) m, abejarrón (es) m, abejón (es) m, moscardón (es) m (Chile), jicote (es) m (Mexico)
• Swedish: humla (sv) c
• Tagalog: himbubuyog, bubuyog (tl)
• Tajik: говзанбӯр (govzanbür)
• Tamil: வண்டுத்தேனீ (vaṇṭuttēṉī)
• Tarifit: iyarẓẓi m
• Tatar: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: తుమ్మెద (te) (tummeda)
• Thai: ผึ้งมีขนตัวใหญ่ที่ส่งเสียงหึ่งๆ (pêung mee kŏn dtua yài tĕe sòng sĭang hèung-hèung), ผึ้งหึ่ง (pʉ̂ng-hʉ̀ng)
• Turkish: hezen arısı, bombus (tr), tüylü arı
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Udmurt: майсы (majsy)
• Ukrainian: джміль m (džmilʹ)
• Unami: tùkòmëwe
• Urdu: بھنور m (bhãvar), بھنورا m (bhãvrā), بھرمر m (bhramar)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: tukli ari
• Veps: učubras, ürgiš
• Vietnamese: ong nghệ (vi)
• Vilamovian: humuł f
• Waray-Waray: alimbubuyog
• Welsh: cacynen (cy) f, cachgi bwm f, gwenynen wyllt f, cacynen y tewlaeth f
• West Flemish: hommel f
• Yakut: тойон ыҥырыа (toyon ïŋïrïa)
• Yiddish: זשומזשע (zhumzhe)
• Yucatec Maya: báalam kaab
• Zapotec:

  Isthmus Zapotec: bezu

  Ocotlán Zapotec: bezoj

mid-yellow colour

• Polish: kolor trzmielowy m

iced drink of layered orange juice and espresso

• Polish: trzmiel (pl) m
• Ukrainian: джміль (džmilʹ)

References

• bumblebee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bombus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Bombus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons