volcanology

English

Alternative forms

• vulcanology

Etymology

From French volcanologie, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcano +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌvɒl.kə.ˈnɒ.lə.dʒi/

Noun

volcanology (uncountable)

1. The study of volcanoes.

Related terms

• volcanologist
• volcanic
• volcano

Translations

study of volcanoes

• Azerbaijani: vulkanologiya
• Catalan: vulcanologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火山學／火山学 (zh) (huǒshānxué)

• Czech: vulkanologie (cs) f
• Danish: vulkanologi (da) c
• Dutch: vulkanologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: vulkanologio, vulkanoscienco
• Finnish: vulkanologia, tulivuoritiede
• French: volcanologie (fr) f
• Galician: vulcanoloxía (gl) f
• German: Vulkanologie (de) f
• Greek: ηφαιστειολογία (el) f (ifaisteiología)
• Hebrew: וולקנולוגיה (he)
• Irish: bolcáneolaíocht f
• Italian: vulcanologia (it) f
• Japanese: 火山学 (ja) (かざんがく, kazangaku)
• Kazakh: жанартаунама (janartaunama)
• Korean: 화산학 (hwasanhak)
• Latin: vulcanologia f
• Malay: kaji gunung berapi, vulkanologi
• Maori: mātai puia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vulkanologi m

  Nynorsk: vulkanologi m

• Polish: wulkanologia f
• Portuguese: vulcanologia f
• Romanian: vulcanologie (ro) f
• Russian: вулканоло́гия (ru) f (vulkanológija)
• Spanish: vulcanología (es) f
• Swedish: vulkanologi (sv) c
• Turkish: volkanoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: вулканоло́гія f (vulkanolóhija)
• Volapük: volkanav

Further reading

• volcanology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia