bumblebee (species of bee) · drone · blues (feeling of sadness)
çekim: çoğul bourdons
eş: bourdon de pèlerin
köken: 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…
aile: avoir le bourdon, faux-bourdon, bourdonner, bourdonnement
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žukъ. Per Vasmer (and others) likely related to жужжа́ть (žužžátʹ), жу́желица (žúželica). Per Chernykh, however, likely related to Proto-Slavic *govędo (denied by Anikin).
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.
köken: Cognate with Old Norse and Icelandic baggi, Old Norse bǫggr, Middle English bagge. The hypothesis for the shift in sense from "bag" to "ram" is by reference to the testicles of an unneutered ram. Doublet of bagage and packe.
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.