sun bear

English

A sun bear

geographic distribution of sun bears

Noun

sun bear (plural sun bears)

1. A species of relatively small bears, Helarctos malayanus, found in Southeast Asia.

Synonyms

• honey bear
• Malay bear
• Malayan bear

Translations

Helarctos malayanus

• Acehnese: cagèë
• Assamese: গছ ভালুক (gos bhaluk)
• Azerbaijani: adi malay ayısı
• Banjarese: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: малайска мечка f (malajska mečka)
• Burmese: ပျားဖွတ်ဝက်ဝံ (pya:hpwat-wak-wam)
• Catalan: ós malai
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬來熊 / 马来熊 (Mǎláixióng)

• Dutch: Maleise beer (nl) m, honingbeer (nl) m
• Finnish: malaijikarhu
• French: ours malais (fr) m
• German: Malaienbär (de) m, Sonnenbär m
• Iban: jugam, akup, makup
• Indonesian: beruang madu
• Irish: béar gréine m
• Italian: orso malese m, orso del sole m
• Japanese: マレーグマ (ja) (marēguma)
• Khmer: ខ្លាឃ្មុំ (km) (khlaa khmum)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: beruang madu
• Maltese: ors tax-xemx m
• Polish: biruang malajski (pl) m, niedźwiedź malajski (pl) m, biruang (pl) m
• Portuguese: urso-malaio m
• Romanian: urs malaez m
• Russian: мала́йский медве́дь m (malájskij medvédʹ), бируа́нг m (biruáng)
• Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: oso malayo m
• Sundanese: ontohod (su)
• Swedish: malajbjörn (sv) c
• Thai: หมีหมา (th) (mǐi-mǎa), หมีคน (th) (mǐi-kon)
• Vietnamese: gấu chó (vi)

Further reading

• sun bear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Helarctos malayanus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Helarctos malayanus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Seaburn, unbares, unbears