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[edit] Etymology 1
Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-Germanic *berô (compare West Frisian bear, Dutch beer, German Bär, Danish bjørn).
This is generally taken to be from Proto-Indo-European *bhreu- (“shining, brown”) (compare Tocharian A parno, B perne (“radiant, luminous”), Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)), related to brown and beaver. Ringe (2006) however asserts that "an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable" and suggests the etymon Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₁r- (“wild animal”).
Use of an epithet (“brown”) in Proto-Indo-European is presumably taboo avoidance; compare Russian медведь (“bear”), literally “honey-eater”, and French renard (“fox”), from proper name Renard.
bear (plural bears)
- A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae, particularly of subfamily Ursinae.
- (informal) An animal that resembles a bear, such as a koala or ant bear.
- (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- Bears look for over-priced securities to sell short.
- (informal) A difficult situation or problem.
- (slang) A large hairy man, especially one who is gay.
- There's a new club up the street for bears, so now any time I want a big beefy guy instead of a frail little twink, it'll be a lot easier to get my greedy hands on one.
[edit] Antonyms
- (investor who anticipates falling prices): bull
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[edit] Translations
large mammal of family Ursidae
- Abkhaz: амшә (ab) (amš°)
- Adyghe: мышъэ (məša)
- Afrikaans: beer
- Ainu: カムィ (kamuy), イソ (iso)
- Albanian: ari (sq) m., ariu (sq)
- Arabic: دب (ar) (dubb) m.
- Aragonese: onso m.
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܕܒܐ (debā, debo) c.
- Hebrew: דבא (debā, debo) c.
- Armenian: արջ (hy) (arǰ)
- Avar: ци (ci)
- Azeri: ayı (az)
- Bashkir: айыу (ayıw)
- Basque: hartz
- Belarusian: мядзведзь (be) (mjadzvédz’) m.
- Bengali: ভালুক (bn) (bhaluk)
- Breton: arzh (br) m.
- Bulgarian: мечок (bg) (mečok) m., мечка (bg) (mečka) f.
- Burmese: ဝက်ဝံ (my) (wet-wun)
- Catalan: ós m.
- Chechen: ча (ça)
- Cherokee: ᏲᏅ (yonv), ᏲᎾ (chr) (yona)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 熊 (zh) (xióng) (traditional also: 魋 (zh))
- Chukchi: кэйӈын (kejŋ-ǝ-n), умӄы (umqǝ), (polar bear)
- Chumash: xus
- Chuvash: упа (cv) (upa)
- Comox: mɛχaɬ
- Cornish: arth (kw) m.
- Cree: ᒪᔉᐗ (maskwa)
- Crimean Tatar: ayuv
- Czech: medvěd (cs) m.
- Danish: bjørn (da)
- Dutch: beer (nl) m., berin (nl) f.
- Esperanto: urso (eo)
- Estonian: karu (et)
- Faroese: bjørn (fo)
- Finnish: karhu, otso (poetic), mesikämmen (poetic)
- French: ours (fr) m.
- Friulian: ors
- Galician: oso
- Georgian: დათვი (ka) (dat'vi)
- German: Bär (de) m.
- Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰 (baira) m.
- Greek: αρκούδα (el) (arkoúda) f., άρκτος (el) (árktos) f.
- Greenlandic: nanoq (kl)
- Gujarati: રીંછ (gu) (rīn̄cha)
- Hebrew: דוב (he) (dov) m.
- Hindi: भालो (hi) (bhaalo) m., भालू (hi) (bhālū) m.
- Hopi: jhoonaw
- Hungarian: medve (hu)
- Icelandic: björn (is)
- Indonesian: beruang (id)
- Interlingua: urso
- Inuktitut: ᐊᑎᖅᐳᖅ (atiqpuq)
- Irish: béar donn (ga), mathúin (ga) m.
- Italian: orso (it) m.
- Itelmen: массу (massu)
- Japanese: 熊 (ja) (くま, kuma), クマ (ja) (kuma)
- Kabardian: мыщэ (məša)
- Kalmyk: аю (ayu)
- Kannada: ಕರಡಿ (kn) (karaḍi)
- Karachay-Balkar: (Karachay) айю (ayü), (Balkar) айыу (ayıu)
- Karakalpak: ayıw (kaa)
- Kashubian: miedzwiédz (csb) m.
- Kazakh: аю (kk) (ayu)
- Ket: ӄой (qòj)
- Khakas: аба (aba)
- Khmer: មនុស្សមុខក្រញ៉ូវ (km) (monuh muk kraa nyuǝ)
- Kildin Sami: та̄лл (tāll)
- Komi: ош (kv) (oš)
- Korean: 곰 (ko) (gom)
- Koryak: умӄа (umqa), (brown) кайӈын (kajŋǝn)
- Kumyk: аюв (ayuw)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: hirç (ku)
- Sorani: ورچ (ku) (wirç)
- Kyrgyz: аюу (ayuu)
- Ladin: lors
- Lao: ໝີ (lo) (mii)
- Latin: ursus (la) m., ursa (la) f.
- Latvian: lācis (lv)
- Lenape:
- Munsee: maxkw
- Unami: màxkw
- Lithuanian: lokys (lt) m., meška (lt) f.
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- Low German: Bår (nds) m.
- Luxembourgish: Bier (lb) m.
- Macedonian: мечка (mk) (méčka)
- Malay: beruang (ms)
- Malayalam: കരടി (ml) (karaṭi)
- Maltese: ors (mt) m., debb (mt)
- Manx: maghouin (gv) m.
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: маска (maska)
- Maricopa: maxwet
- Meänkieli: karhuu
- Mongolian: баавгай (mn) (baavgai)
- Montagnais: mashkᵘ
- Nanai: нанги (nangi)
- Navajo: shash
- Nivkh: ӄ'отр; ч’аӈ ӄ’отр (polar bear) (qotr; č‘aŋ qotr)
- Nogai: аюв (ayuw)
- Northern Sami: guovža (se)
- Northern Yukaghir: хайчиэтэгэ (xajčieːteːgeː)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bjørn (nb) m.
- Nynorsk: bjørn (nn) m.
- Novial: urse
- O'odham: judumi
- Occitan: ors (oc)
- Ojibwe: ᒪᒃᐗ (makwa)
- Old English: bera (ang) m.
- Old Irish: art m., mathgamain m.
- Old Turkic: adıg (tr)
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Ossetian: арс (ars)
- Persian: خرس (fa) (xers)
- Polish: niedźwiedź m., niedźwiedzica f., miś m. (diminutive)
- Portuguese: urso (pt) m.
- Punjabi: ਰਿਛ (rich)
- Romani: rish m., rishni f.
- Romanian: urs (ro)
- Romansch: urs, urs (rm) m., uors (rm) m., ursa (rm) f., uorsa (rm) f.
- Russia Buryat: баабгай (baabgaj)
- Russian: медведь (ru) (medvéd’) m., медведица (ru) (medvédica) f., (bear cub) медвежонок (ru) (medvežónok) m., (diminutive or teddy bear) мишка (ru) (míška) m.
- Sami: guovža
- Sanskrit: ऋक्ष (sa) (ṛ́kṣa) m.
- Sardinian: ursu, ùssulu
- Scottish Gaelic: mathan m.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мѐдвјед (sh) m. (Ijekavian), мѐдвед (sh) m. (Ekavian), мѐдвједица (sh) f. (Ijekavian), мѐдведица (sh) f. (Ekavian)
- Roman: mèdvjed (sh) m. (Ijekavian), mèdved (sh) m. (Ekavian), mèdvjedica (sh) f. (Ijekavian), mèdvedica (sh) f. (Ekavian)
- Shor: апшақ (apşaq), азығ (azığ)
- Sinhalese: වලසා (si) (valasā)
- Slovak: medveď (sk) m.
- Slovene: medved (sl) m., medvedka (sl) f.
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mjadwjeź (dsb) m.
- Upper Sorbian: mjedwjedź (hsb) m.
- Southern Altai: айу (ayu)
- Spanish: oso (es) m.
- Swahili: dubu (nc 5/6)
- Swedish: björn (sv) c.
- Tagalog: oso (tl)
- Tajik: хирс (tg) (xirs)
- Tamil: கரடி (ta) (karaṭi)
- Taos: kə́ona
- Tatar: ayu (tt), аю (tt)
- Telugu: ఎలుగుబంటి (elugubaMTi), ఎలుగ్గొడ్డు (eluggoDDu), ఎలుగు (elugu)
- Thai: หมี (th) (mii)
- Turkish: ayı (tr)
- Turkmen: aýy (tk)
- Tuvan: адыг (tyv) (adığ)
- Udmurt: гондыр (gondər)
- Ukrainian: ведмідь (uk) (vedmíd') m.
- Urdu: بالو (ur) (bālū) m.
- Uyghur: ئېيىق (ug) (éyiq)
- Uzbek: ayiq (uz)
- Veps: mezikämen
- Vietnamese: gấu (vi)
- Vilamovian: baor
- Volapük: (male or female) ber (vo), (male) hiber (vo), (female) jiber (vo), (male or female offspring, young) berül (vo), (male offspring) hiberül (vo), (female offspring) jiberül (vo)
- Welsh: arth (cy) m. and f.
- West Frisian: bear (fy)
- Yakut: эһэ (ehe)
- Yiddish: בער (yi) (ber) m.
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investor who anticipates falling prices
[edit] Adjective
bear (comparative more bear, superlative most bear)
- (finance, investments) Characterized by or believing to benefit of declining prices in securities markets.
- The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.
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bear (not comparable)
- (UK, slang) very
- You rang me last night but it was bear late and I didn't answer.
[edit] Etymology 2
From Middle English beren (“carry, bring forth”), from Old English beran (“to carry, bear, bring”), from Proto-Germanic *beranan, *barōnan (“to bear, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-, *bʰrē- (“to bear”). Akin to Old High German beran (“carry”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (baíran), Latin ferre, and Ancient Greek φέρειν (pherein), Russian беременная (beremennaya, “pregnant”). These derive from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.
bear (third-person singular simple present bears, present participle bearing, simple past bore, or (archaic) bare, past participle born, borne, or (archaic) yborn)
- (transitive) To carry something.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 234b.
- imitations that bear the same name as the things
- 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion[1], page 266:
- In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
- (transitive) To be equipped with something.
- the right to bear arms
- (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
- The jury could see he was bearing false witness.
- (transitive) To put up with something.
- please bear with me as I...
- (transitive) To give birth to someone or something.
- In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.
- (transitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- (intransitive) To be - or head - in a specific direction from the observer’s position.
- The harbour bears North by Northeast.
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carry
- Arabic: حمل (ar) (Hamala)
- Bulgarian: нося (bg), пренасям (bg)
- Catalan: portar
- Mandarin: 攜帶 (cmn), 携带 (cmn) (xiédài), 攜 (cmn), 携 (cmn) (xié), 帶 (cmn), 带 (cmn) (dài), 運 (cmn), 运 (cmn) (yùn)
- Czech: nést (cs)
- Dutch: dragen (nl), torsen (nl)
- Finnish: kantaa (fi)
- French: porter (fr)
- German: tragen (de)
- Hebrew: סחב (he) (sakháv), נשא (he) (nasa)
- Hindi: ले जाना (hi) (le jānā)
- Italian: portare (it)
- Japanese: 運ぶ (ja) (はこぶ, hakobu), 持って行く (ja) (もっていく, motte-iku)
- Korean: 나르다 (ko) (nareuda)
- Latin: ferro (la), veho (la)
- Latvian: nest (lv)
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- Lithuanian: nešti (lt), nešioti (lt)
- Norwegian: bære (no)
- Persian: بردن (fa) (bordan)
- Polish: nosić (pl)
- Portuguese: portar, levar, carregar
- Romanian: căra (ro), duce (ro), purta (ro), aduce (ro)
- Russian: носить (ru) (nosít’) impf., нести (ru) (nestí) pf.
- Scottish Gaelic: beir, giùlain
- Slovak: nosiť (sk), niesť (sk)
- Slovene: nositi (sl)
- Spanish: llevar (es)
- Swedish: bära (sv)
- Telugu: మోయుట (te) (moyuta)
- Thai: ถือ (th) (tĕu), ขน (th) (kŏn)
- Ukrainian: носити (uk) (nosýty) impf., нести (uk) (nestý) pf.
- Vietnamese: mang (vi), ẵm (vi)
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put up with
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- Japanese: 耐え忍ぶ (ja) (たえしのぶ, taeshinobu), 耐える (ja) (たえる, taeru)
- Latin: habeo (la)
- Norwegian: tåle (no)
- Portuguese: suportar (pt), aguentar (pt)
- Romanian: suporta (ro), tolera (ro)
- Russian: выносить (ru) (vynosít’) impf., вынести (ru) (výnesti) pf., терпеть (ru) (terpét') impf., вытерпеть (ru) (výterpet') pf.
- Scottish Gaelic: fuiling, fulaing
- Slovene: prenašati
- Spanish: soportar (es), aguantar (es), resistir (es)
- Swedish: tåla (sv), uthärda (sv)
- Turkish: katlanmak (tr)
- Vietnamese: chịu (vi)
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give birth to
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- Korean: 낳다 (ko) (nata)
- Latin: pariō (la)
- Latvian: dzemdēt (lv)
- Lithuanian: gimdyti (lt)
- Norwegian: bære (no), fram (no), føde (no)
- Old English: cennan (ang)
- Persian: وضع حمل (fa), زاییدن (fa) (zāyidan)
- Polish: urodzić (pl)
- Portuguese: parir (pt), dar à luz (pt)
- Romanian: da naștere (ro)
- Russian: рожать (ru) (rožát’) impf., родить (ru) (rodít’) pf., (bookish) производить на свет (ru) (proizvodít’ na svet) impf., произвести на свет (ru) (proizvestí na svet) pf.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ра́ђати (sh), ро̀дити (sh)
- Roman: ráđati (sh), ròditi (sh)
- Slovak: porodiť
- Spanish: parir (es)
- Swedish: föda (sv)
- Thai: ประสูติ (th) (bprà-sòot), ตกลูก (th) (dtòk-lôok)
- Turkish: doğurmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: роди (uk) (rody) n. pl.
- Vietnamese: sinh (vi) (生 (vi)), sinh sản (vi)
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be in a specific direction
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[edit] West Frisian
bear c. (plural bearen)
- bear