she-bear

English

Etymology

From Middle English sche bere; equivalent to she- +‎ bear.

Noun

she-bear (plural she-bears)

1. A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear).
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:

     Elisha [...] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently[.]

   • 2001, Bible Old Testament 2 Kings 2:24 (English Standard Version)

     two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

Synonyms

• bearess

Translations

a female bear

• Albanian: arushë (sq)
• Basque: hartz eme
• Breton: arzhez (br)
• Bulgarian: мечка (bg) f (mečka)
• Catalan: óssa (ca) f
• Czech: medvědice (cs) f
• Dutch: berin (nl) f
• Esperanto: ursino
• Estonian: emakaru (et)
• Finnish: naaraskarhu
• French: ourse (fr) f
• Galician: osa (gl) f
• German: Bärin (de) f
• Hebrew: דֻּבָּה (he) f (dubbá)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: birna f
• Italian: orsa (it) f
• Japanese: 雌熊 (めすくま, mesukuma)
• Kashmiri: ہاپٕژ (ks) f (hāpụċ)
• Kazakh: кірекей (kırekei)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مالۆس (malos)

• Latin: ursa f
• Latvian: lācene (lv) f
• Norwegian: binne f

  Nynorsk: bere, binne, hobjørn

• Polish: niedźwiedzica (pl) f
• Portuguese: ursa (pt) f
• Russian: медве́дица (ru) f (medvédica)
• Slovak: medvedica (sk) f
• Slovene: medvedka (sl) f
• Spanish: osa (es) f
• Swedish: björnhona (sv) c, björninna (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ведме́диця (uk) f anim (vedmédycja)
• Vietnamese: gấu cái
• Volapük: (♂♀) ber (vo), (♂) hiber, (♀) jiber
• Welsh: arthes (cy) f

Anagrams

• Basheer, behears, beshare, beshear, he-bears