ethnology

English

Etymology

From ethno- +‎ -logy.

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Noun

ethnology (usually uncountable, plural ethnologies)

1. (anthropology) The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.

   Coordinate term: ethnography

Derived terms

• ethnologer
• palaeoethnology
• paleoethnology

Related terms

• ethnic
• ethnography
• ethnological
• ethnologist

Translations

branch of anthropology

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: tudoniezh (br) f
• Catalan: etnologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民族學 / 民族学 (zh) (mínzúxué)

• Czech: etnologie (cs) f
• Danish: etnologi c
• Dutch: volkskunde f, volkenkunde (nl)
• Esperanto: etnologio
• Finnish: etnologia (fi), kansatiede (fi)
• French: ethnologie (fr) f
• Georgian: ეთნოლოგია (etnologia)
• German: Ethnologie (de) f, Völkerkunde (de) f
• Greek: εθνολογία (el) f (ethnología)
• Guaraní: tekochaukahakuaaty
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: etnológia (hu), összehasonlító/egyetemes néprajz
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: etnologio (io)
• Indonesian: etnologi (id)
• Irish: eitneolaíocht f
• Italian: etnologia (it) f
• Japanese: 民族学 (ja) (みんぞくがく, minzokugaku)
• Kannada: ನಾಡರಿಮೆ (kn) (nāḍarime)
• Kazakh: халықтану (xalyqtanu)
• Korean: 민족학 (ko) (minjokhak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: binyadnasî (ku)

• Latvian: etnoloģija f
• Malay: kaji rumpun bangsa, etnologi (ms)
• Malayalam: ഗോത്രവർഗ്ഗപഠനം (gōtravaṟggapaṭhanaṁ)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: etnologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: etnologia (pt) f
• Romanian: etnologie (ro) f
• Russian: этноло́гия (ru) f (etnológija), народове́дение (ru) n (narodovédenije)
• Spanish: etnología (es) f
• Swedish: etnologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalublahian
• Tamil: இனப்பண்பாட்டுயல் (iṉappaṇpāṭṭuyal), இன ஒப்பாய்வியல் (iṉa oppāyviyal)
• Telugu: మానవజాతి శాస్త్రం (mānavajāti śāstraṁ)
• Thai: ชาติพันธุ์วิทยา (chātiphạnṭhu̒withyā)
• Turkish: budun bilimi (tr)
• Ukrainian: етнологія f (etnolohija), народознавство n (narodoznavstvo)
• Vietnamese: dân tộc học (vi)

See also

• entomology
• ethology
• etiology / aetiology
• etymology

Further reading

• ethnology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ethnology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ethnology”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.