geomorphology

English

Etymology

geo- +‎ morphology

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Noun

geomorphology (countable and uncountable, plural geomorphologies)

1. The study of landforms, their classification, origin, development, and history.

Derived terms

• biogeomorphology
• dendrogeomorphology
• ecogeomorphology
• exogeomorphology
• hydrogeomorphology
• paleogeomorphology
• photogeomorphology

 

Related terms

• geomorphologic
• geomorphological
• geomorphologist

Translations

the study of landforms

• Afrikaans: geomorfologie
• Asturian: xeomorfoloxía f
• Azerbaijani: geomorfologiya
• Belarusian: геамарфало́гія f (hjeamarfalóhija)
• Bengali: ভূমিরূপবিদ্যা (bhumirupbidda)
• Catalan: geomorfologia f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 地形學／地形学 (tē-hêng-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 地貌學／地貌学 (zh) (dìmàoxué), 地形學／地形学 (zh) (dìxíngxué)

• Czech: geomorfologie (cs) f
• Danish: geomorfologi (da) c
• Dutch: geomorfologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: geomorfologio
• Finnish: geomorfologia (fi)
• French: géomorphologie (fr) f
• Galician: xeomorfoloxía f
• Georgian: გეომორფოლოგია (geomorpologia)
• German: Geomorphologie (de) f
• Hungarian: geomorfológia (hu), felszínalaktan
• Irish: geomoirfeolaíocht f
• Italian: geomorfologia (it) f
• Japanese: 地形学 (ja) (ちけいがく, chikeigaku)
• Kannada: ಭೂರೂಪಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (bhūrūpaśāstra)
• Kazakh: геоморфология (geomorfologiä)
• Korean: 지형학(地形學) (ko) (jihyeonghak)
• Kyrgyz: геоморфология (geomorfologiya)
• Malay: kaji bentuk bumi, geomorfologi (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geomorfologi m

  Nynorsk: geomorfologi m

• Persian: ژئومورفولوژی
• Polish: geomorfologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: geomorfologia f
• Romanian: geomorfologie (ro) f
• Russian: геоморфоло́гия (ru) f (geomorfológija)
• Serbo-Croatian: geomorfologija (sh) f
• Spanish: geomorfología (es) f
• Swedish: geomorfologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: duanyuan, duanyuan, heomorpolohiya
• Tajik: заминрехтшиносӣ (zaminrextšinosī), геоморфология (geomorfologiya)
• Thai: ธรณีสัณฐานวิทยา
• Turkish: jeomorfoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: геоморфоло́гія f (heomorfolóhija)
• Vietnamese: địa mạo học (地貌學)
• Yakut: геоморфология (geomorfologiya)