English
Etymology
Coined by Thomas Pennant in A Synopsis of Quadrupeds (1771).
Pronunciation
Noun
polar bear (plural polar bears)
- A hypercarnivorous species of bear, Ursus maritimus, whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle.
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Translations
Ursus maritimus
- Albanian: ariu polar
- Amharic: የበሮዶ ድብ (yäbärodo dəb)
- Arabic: دُبّ أَبْيَض m (dubb ʔabyaḍ), دُبَّة بَيْضَاء f (dubba(t) bayḍāʔ), دُبّ قُطْبِيّ m (dubb quṭbiyy), دُبَّة قُطْبِيَّة f (dubba(t) quṭbiyya)
- Armenian: սպիտակ արջ (spitak arǰ)
- Assamese: বগা ভালুক (boga bhaluk)
- Azerbaijani: ağ ayı (az)
- Basque: hartz zuri
- Belarusian: бе́лы мядзве́дзь m (bjély mjadzvjédzʹ)
- Breton: arzh gwenn (br) m
- Bulgarian: бя́ла ме́чка f (bjála méčka), поля́рна ме́чка f (poljárna méčka)
- Burmese: ဝင်ရိုးစွန်းဝက်ဝံ (wang-rui:cwan:wak-wam)
- Catalan: os polar (ca) m, os blanc (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᏲᎾ ᎤᏁᎦ (yona unega)
- Cheyenne: vóhpenáhkohe
- Chickasaw: falammi nita', nita' aakapassaa-asha', nita' tohbi'
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 北極熊 / 北极熊 (zh) (Běijíxióng), 白熊 (zh) (báixióng)
- Chukchi: умӄы
- Cornish: arth gwynn m, ors gwynn m
- Cree: ᐧᐋᐸᔅᒄ (yaapaskw)
- Czech: lední medvěd, medvěd lední (cs), polární medvěd m
- Danish: isbjørn (da) c
- Dutch: ijsbeer (nl) m
- Esperanto: blanka urso (eo)
- Estonian: jääkaru
- Faroese: hvítabjørn f
- Finnish: jääkarhu (fi)
- French: ours blanc (fr) m, ours polaire (fr) m
- Galician: oso polar (gl) m
- Georgian: თეთრი დათვი (tetri datvi)
- German: Eisbär (de) m, Polarbär (de) m
- Greek: πολική αρκούδα (el) f (polikí arkoúda)
- Greenlandic: nanoq (kl)
- Gujarati: ધ્રુવીય રીંછ (dhruvīya rī̃ch)
- Hawaiian: nanuka
- Hebrew: דוב הקוטב m (dov ha-kotev)
- Hindi: ध्रुवीय भालू m (dhruvīya bhālū)
- Hungarian: jegesmedve (hu)
- Icelandic: ísbjörn (is), hvítabjörn (is)
- Ido: urso blanka (io)
- Inari Sami: jieŋâkuobžâ
- Indonesian: beruang kutub (id)
- Ingrian: valkia karhu, merikarhu
- Inuktitut: ᓇᓄᖅ (iu) (nanoq), nanuq (iu)
- Inupiaq: nanuq
- Inuvialuktun: nanuq
- Irish: béar bán m
- Italian: orso polare m, orso bianco m
- Japanese: ホッキョクグマ (ja) (Hokkyoku-guma) (北極熊 (ja)), シロクマ (shirokuma) (白熊 (ja))
- Kalmyk: цаһан аю (tsağan ayu)
- Kazakh: ақ аю (aq aü)
- Khmer: ខ្លាឃ្មុំទឹកកក (khlaa khmum tɨk kɑɑk)
- Komi-Zyrian: еджыд ош (jedžyd oš)
- Korean: 흰곰 (huin'gom), 북극곰 (ko) (Bukgeukgom)
- Koyukon: taah kʼetlaaghozeʼ
- Lakota: matȟóska
- Latvian: leduslācis m, polārlācis m, baltais lācis m
- Lithuanian: baltasis lokys
- Luxembourgish: Äisbier (lb) m, Polarbier (lb) m
- Macedonian: бела мечка f (bela mečka)
- Malay: beruang kutub (ms)
- Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: wapsq anim
- Mansi:
- Northern Mansi: то̄рев (tōrev)
- Maori: pea huka
- Mongolian: цагаан баавгай (cagaan baavgaj)
- Nahuatl: ātlācamāyeh
- Norman: blianc-ours m
- Northern Sami: jiekŋaguovža
- Norwegian: isbjørn (no) m
- Pawnee: kurukstaakaa
- Persian: خرس قطبی m (xers-e qotbi)
- Plautdietsch: Ieesboa m
- Polish: niedźwiedź polarny (pl) m, niedźwiedź biały (pl) m
- Portuguese: urso-polar m, urso-branco m
- Quechua: yuraq ukumari
- Romanian: urs polar (ro) m, urs alb (ro) m
- Russian: бе́лый медве́дь (ru) m (bélyj medvédʹ), поля́рный медве́дь m (poljárnyj medvédʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сјеверни медвјед/северни медвед, бијели медвјед/бели медвед, поларни медвјед m/поларни медвед m,
- Latin: sjeverni medvjed/severni medved, bijeli medvjed/beli medved, polarni medvjed m/polarni medved m
- Slovak: ľadový medveď m
- Slovene: polarni medved (sl) m, beli medved m
- Spanish: oso polar m, oso blanco (es) m
- Swahili: dubu barafu
- Swedish: isbjörn (sv) c
- Tajik: хирси қутбӣ (xirs-i qutbi)
- Tamil: துருவக் கரடி (turuvak karaṭi)
- Thai: หมีขั้วโลก (th) (mǐi-kûua-lôok), หมีขาว (th) (mǐi-kǎao)
- Tibetan: བྱང་སྣེའི་དོམ་དཀར (byang sne'i dom dkar)
- Tsimshian: mooksgm'ol
- Tundra Nenets: сэр' варк (ser' wark°)
- Turkish: kutup ayısı (tr)
- Udmurt: тӧдьы гондыр (töďy gondyr)
- Ukrainian: бі́лий ведмі́дь m (bílyj vedmídʹ)
- Urdu: قطبی بھالو m (qutbī bhālū)
- Uyghur: ئاق ئېيىق (aq ëyiq)
- Uzbek: oq ayiq
- Vietnamese: gấu trắng Bắc Cực, gấu Bắc Cực (vi), gấu trắng
- Welsh: arth wen (cy) f, arth y gogledd f
- West Frisian: iisbear c
- Yiddish: ווײַסער בער m (vayser ber)
- Yup'ik: arlunaq, nanuaq
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