English
Etymology
Calque of Dutch Bereneiland, from beer (“bear”) + eiland (“island”).
Proper noun
Bear Island
- An island of Svalbard, Norway.
Translations
island of the Svalbard archipelago
- Arabic: جزيرة الدب f
- Basque: Hartzen uhartea
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 熊岛
- Danish: Bjørneøen c
- Dutch: Bereneiland n, Beeren Eiland n
- Estonian: Karusaar
- Faroese: Bjarnoyggin f, Bjarnoy f
- Finnish: Karhusaari (fi)
- French: Île aux Ours f
- German: Bäreninsel f
- Icelandic: Bjarnarey (is) f
- Italian: Isola degli Orsi f
- Latvian: Lāču sala f
- Limburgish: Baereneilandj
- Lithuanian: Lokių sala f
- Luxembourgish: Biereninsel f
- Norwegian:
- Nynorsk: Bjørnøya f, Bjørnøyi f
- Polish: Wyspa Niedźwiedzia f
- Portuguese: Ilha do Urso f
- Russian: Медвежий (Medvežij)
- Swahili: Kisiwa cha Dubu
- Swedish: Björnön c
- Turkish: Ayı Adası
- Ukrainian: Ведмежий острів m (Vedmežyj ostriv)
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