bumblebee (bee of the genus Bombus) · drone (male bee)
çekim: çoğul hommels
köken: From Middle Dutch hommel. Likely an onomatopoeic derivation from a verb and the archaic diminutive suffix -el (see Dutch -el). Cognate with Middle Low German homel, Old High German humbal, German Hummel, West Frisian hommel, Middle English humbil, English humblebee, Norwegian humle, Swedish humla. See also hommelen, hommeles and German hummeln.
botfly, gadfly (any insect of the family Oestridae) · synonym of bogatek · bumblebee (insect similar to a bee, but much thicker and more densely haired, making a humming sound while flying)
çekim: çoğul bąki · tamlayan bąka
eş: trzmiel, ślepak, giez, fryga, bączek, cyga
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *bǫkъ Old Polish bąk Polish bąk Inherited from Old Polish bąk.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kimalainën. Possibly a borrowing from Proto-Slavic *čьmeľь, itself likely onomatopoetic; attempts at deriving from kimeä (“shrill”) or kimaltaa (“to glitter”) are semantically unconvincing, since bumblebees don't glitter and the sound they emit is the opposite of shrill. Compare Karelian kimaleh.
Inherited from Middle French bourdon (“honeybee, bumblebee”), from Old French bordon (“bumblebee, drone, beetle, insect”), from Medieval Latin burdō (c. C.E. 1000), first recorded in the Homilies of King Ælfric, glossed by Old English dora (“bumblebee”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Frankish *boʀdō, *buʀdō (“beetle, insect”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub”, literally…