mineralogy

English

Alternative forms

• minerology (rare)

Etymology

mineral +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪnəˈɹɒlədʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪnəˈɹɑlədʒi/

Noun

mineralogy (countable and uncountable, plural mineralogies)

1. (petrology) The branch of petrology that studies minerals.
2. Its mineral materials.
3. A treatise on mineralogy.

Derived terms

• mineralogical
• mineralogist

Translations

the study or science of minerals

• Afrikaans: mineralogie
• Armenian: հանքաբանություն (hy) (hankʿabanutʿyun)
• Asturian: mineraloxía f
• Basque: mineralogia (eu)
• Belarusian: мінерало́гія f (minjeralóhija)
• Bulgarian: минерало́гия f (mineralógija)
• Burmese: သတ္တုဗေဒ (my) (sattu.beda.)
• Catalan: mineralogia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 礦物學 (zh), 矿物学 (zh) (kuàngwù xué)

• Czech: mineralogie (cs) f
• Danish: mineralogi (da)
• Dutch: mineralogie (nl) f
• Esperanto: mineralogio
• Estonian: mineraloogia
• Faroese: steinafrøði f
• Finnish: mineralogia (fi)
• French: minéralogie (fr) f
• Galician: mineraloxía f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Mineralogie (de) f
• Greek: ορυκτολογία (el) f (oryktología)
• Hebrew: מינרלוגיה‎ (he) f (mineralogya)
• Hungarian: ásványtan (hu), mineralógia (hu)
• Icelandic: steindafræði
• Ido: mineralogio (io)
• Indonesian: mineralogi (id)
• Interlingua: mineralogia

• Irish: mianreolaíocht f
• Italian: mineralogia (it) f
• Japanese: 鉱物学 (ja) (こうぶつがく, kōbutsugaku)
• Latvian: mineraloģija
• Lithuanian: mineralogija f
• Luxembourgish: mineralogie
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mineralogi m

  Nynorsk: mineralogi m

• Persian: کانی‌شناسی‎ (kâni-šenâsi)
• Polish: mineralogia (pl) f
• Portuguese: mineralogia (pt) f
• Romanian: mineralogie (ro) f
• Russian: минерало́гия (ru) f (mineralógija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: минералогија f

  Roman: mineralogija (sh) f

• Slovak: mineralógia (sk) f
• Slovene: mineralogija (sl) f
• Spanish: mineralogía (es) f
• Swedish: mineralogi (sv) c
• Tagalog: lupangkapan
• Telugu: ఖనిజశాస్త్రము (khanijaśāstramu)
• Turkish: mineraloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: мінерало́гія f (mineralóhija)
• Vietnamese: vật học
• Volapük: minav (vo)

See also

• gemology
• Category:en:Mineralogy
• petrography