English
Etymology
From bee + -s- + wax.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbiːzwæks/
- Rhymes: -iːzwæks
Noun
beeswax (usually uncountable, plural beeswaxes)
- A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.
The candle was made entirely of natural beeswax.
She polished the furniture with beeswax to give it a shine.
The beekeeper collected honey and beeswax from the hives.
- (informal, Canada, US, humorous) Business.
- mind your own beeswax
- none of your beeswax
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
wax secreted by bees
- Agta:
- Dupaningan Agta: lilen
- Arabic: شَمْع الْعَسَل m (šamʕ al-ʕasal)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܫܲܥܘܼܬ݂ܵܐ (šaˁūṯā)
- Armenian: մեղրամոմ (hy) (meġramom)
- Assamese: মৌসিটা (mouxita), মম (mom)
- Azerbaijani: mum (az), arı mumu
- Bashkir: балауыҙ (balawıź)
- Belarusian: пчалі́ны воск m (pčalíny vosk)
- Bengali: মোম (bn) (mōm)
- Bhojpuri: मोम (mōm)
- Bulgarian: пче́лен во́сък m (pčélen vósǎk)
- Catalan: cera d'abella f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蜜蠟 / 蜜蜡 (zh) (mìlà), 蜂蠟 / 蜂蜡 (zh) (fēnglà)
- Crimean Tatar: balavuz
- Czech: včelí vosk m
- Danish: bivoks (da) c or n
- Dutch: bijenwas (nl) m
- Esperanto: abelvakso
- Estonian: mesilasvaha (et)
- Finnish: mehiläisvaha (fi)
- French: cire d'abeille (fr) f
- Galician: cera de abella f, borra de abella f, buio (gl) m, morria f
- German: Bienenwachs (de) n
- Greek: μελισσόκηρος m (melissókiros), μελισσοκέρι (el) n (melissokéri)
- Ancient Greek: κηρός m (kērós), κηρίον n (kēríon)
- Hawaiian: kūkaenalo
- Hebrew: דונג (he) m (dónag)
- Hindi: मोम (hi) m (mom), मधुमोम m (madhumom)
- Hungarian: méhviasz (hu)
- Icelandic: bývax n
- Indonesian: lilin lebah (id), malam (id)
- Ingrian: vaha
- Italian: cera d'api (it)
- Japanese: 蜜蝋 (ja) (みつろう, mitsurō), 封蝋 (ja) (ふうろう, fūrō)
- Kazakh: балауыз (balauyz)
- Khmer: ក្រមួនឃ្មុំ (krɑmuən khmum)
- Korean: 밀랍(蜜蠟) (ko) (millap), 봉랍(蜂蠟) (ko) (bongnap)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: şima (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: мом (mom)
- Latin: cēra f
- Latvian: vasks (lv) m
- Lun Bawang: ulih
- Macedonian: пчелин восок m (pčelin vosok)
- Malay: lilin lebah
- Malayalam: മെഴുക് (ml) (meḻukŭ)
- Māori: ware (mi)
- Middle English: wax
- Naga:
- Khiamniungan Naga: yàp
- Nahuatl:
- Classical Nahuatl: xīcohcuitlatl
- Navajo: tsísʼná bijeeh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bivoks (no) m
- Nynorsk: bivoks m
- Persian: موم (fa) (mum)
- Polish: wosk pszczeli (pl) m
- Portuguese: cera de abelha f
- Punjabi: ਮੋਮ f (mom)
- Romanian: ceară de albine (ro) f
- Russian: пчели́ный воск m (pčelínyj vosk)
- Scottish Gaelic: cèir f, cèir-sheillean f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: восковаринa f, пчелињи восак m
- Latin: voskovarina (sh) f, pčelinji vosak m
- Sicilian: cira (scn), cira dî lapi
- Slovak: včelí vosk m
- Slovene: čebelji vosek m
- Spanish: cera de abeja f
- Sudovian: vaskan
- Swedish: bivax (sv) n
- Tagalog: pagkit
- Tajik: мум (mum)
- Tamil: மெழுகு (ta) (meḻuku), தேன்மெழுகு (ta) (tēṉmeḻuku)
- Tatar: балавыз (tt) (balawız)
- Thai: ขี้ผึ้ง (th) (kîi-pʉ̂ng)
- Tibetan: སྤྲ་ཚིལ (spra tshil), བུང་བའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ (bung ba'i spra tshil), སྦྲང་བུའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ (sbrang bu'i spra tshil)
- Tooro: ebisasara class 8
- Turkish: bal mumu (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: بالمومی (balmumu)
- Ukrainian: бджоли́ний ві́ск m (bdžolýnyj vísk)
- Urdu: موم m (mom)
- Venetan: zèra f
- Vietnamese: sáp ong
- Volapük: bienaväk (vo)
- Welsh: cŵyr gwenyn m
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Verb
beeswax (third-person singular simple present beeswaxes, present participle beeswaxing, simple past and past participle beeswaxed)
- (transitive) To polish with beeswax.