This paper introduces the first step of making a multilingual specialized dictionary, which includes a selection of terms, their arrangement according to adequacy and the determination of synonymous relationships between the terms. The research was based of the first phase of compiling a Slovene-Chinese and Chinese-Slovene specialized beekeeping dictionary. The results of the research could, however, be applied to the making of specialized dictionaries for any research field. The focus areas of the paper are: the partial overlapping of everyday language and specialized terminology; the different arrangement approaches of existing dictionaries; the many synonyms that are often wrongly understood to denote different things; the coining of new terms when needed; the traps of literal translation.V članku predstavim postopek prve faze izdelave večjezičnega terminološkega slovarja, ki vključuje izbor izrazov, njihovo razvrstitev glede na ustreznost in določitev sinonimnih razmerij. Raziskava se osredotoča na izdelavo kitajsko-slovenskega in slovensko-kitajskega čebelarskega terminološkega slovarja, vendar lahko njene rezultate prenesemo na izdelavo slovarja za katerokoli strokovno področje. Članek izpostavi naslednja vprašanja: delno prekrivanje splošnega in strokovnega jezika; nepoenotene ureditve obstoječih slovarjev; napačno razumevanje sopomenk, ki se pogosto zmotno razumejo kot izrazi za različne pojme; utemeljeno ustvarjanje novih izrazov; ter nenazadnje pasti glede prevajanja besednih zvez
