English
Etymology
Calque of German Wasserbär, used to describe these animals by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773. Equivalent to water + bear.
Pronunciation
Noun
water bear (plural water bears)
- (zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
- Synonyms: moss piglet, pudgy wudgy, space bear, tardigrade
Translations
A member of the phylum Tardigrada
- Afrikaans: waterbeertjie
- Amharic: የውሃ ድብ (yäwha dəb)
- Arabic: بَطِيء الخَطْو m (baṭīʔ al-ḵaṭw), بَطِيء المِشْيَة m (baṭīʔ al-mišya), تارْدِيجْرادا f (tārdīgrāda), دُبّ المَاء m (dubb al-māʔ), خَنْزِير الطُحْلُب m (ḵanzīr aṭ-ṭuḥlub)
- Armenian: ջրային արջ (ǰrayin arǰ)
- Azerbaijani: ərincəkli
- Bashkir: аҡрын йөрөүсө (aqrın yöröwsö)
- Belarusian: ціхаходка f (cixaxódka)
- Bengali: টারডিগ্রেড (ṭaroḍigreḍ)
- Bulgarian: бавноходка f (bavnohodka)
- Catalan: tardígrad m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 水熊 (zh) (shuǐxióng)
- Czech: želvuška f
- Danish: bjørnedyr n
- Dutch: beerdiertje n
- Esperanto: tardigrado
- Estonian: tardigraad, loimur
- Finnish: karhukainen (fi)
- French: tardigrade (fr) m, ourson d’eau (fr) m
- Galician: tardígrado m
- Georgian: ნელამავალნი (nelamavalni)
- German: Bärtierchen (de) n, Wasserbär m
- Alemannic German: Bärdierli, Wasserbär m
- Greek: βραδύπορα (el) n pl (vradýpora)
- Hebrew: דובון מים m (dubón máyim)
- Hindi: टार्डीग्रेड m (ṭārḍīgreḍ)
- Hungarian: medveállatka (hu)
- Icelandic: bessadýr n
- Irish: béar uisce m
- Italian: orso d'acqua, tardigrado m
- Japanese: クマムシ (kumamushi), 緩歩動物 (ja) (kanpodōbutsu)
- Kazakh: жайбасар (jaibasar)
- Korean: 완보동물 (wanbodongmul)
- Lao: ຕາກດີກະລາດາ (tāk dī ka lā dā)
- Latvian: gauskājis m
- Limburgish: waterbaer (li) m, waterbeer m
- Lithuanian: lėtūnas m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Waterboor m
- Malay: beruang air, tardigrada
- Malayalam: ടാർഡിഗ്രാഡ (ṭāṟḍigrāḍa)
- Mari:
- Western Mari: мызыргышы (myzyrgyšy)
- Navajo: tsįdláádkááʼ naatʼiʼí
- North Frisian: beerdiart
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bjørnedyr n
- Nynorsk: bjørnedyr n
- Occitan: tardigrad m, orson d'aiga m
- Polish: niesporczak (pl) m
- Portuguese: tardígrado, urso d'água
- Romanian: tardigrad (ro) n
- Russian: тихохо́дка (ru) f (tixoxódka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тардигра́де m, дугоживци
- Roman: tardigráde (sh) m, dugoživci
- Slovak: tardigrad m, pomalk
- Slovene: tardigrad m, počásnik m
- Spanish: oso de agua m, tardígrado (es) m
- Swahili: kidudu-dubu class 5/6
- Swedish: björndjur n, trögkrypare c
- Tagalog: tardigrado
- Tatar: әкрен йөрүче (äkren yörüçe)
- Thai: หมีน้ำ (mĕe náam)
- Turkish: su ayısı
- Vietnamese: gấu nước (vi)
- Welsh: arafsymudwr m
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