Masculine
Bär
Meaning
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- (masculine,mixed,weak) bear (animal)
- (masculine,mixed,weak) bear (someone or something bear-like, e.g. a sturdy man)
Concepts
Synonyms
Meister Petz
Ursus
Selenarctos
Thalarctos
Ursidae
Ursus arctos
Petz
Fallhammer
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bɛːr/
Etymology
From Middle High German bër m, Old High German bero m, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô, conventionally taken to be a taboo-avoidance term derived from the word for "brown". Compare Dutch beer, English bear, West Frisian bear, Danish bjørn.
Cognate with Dutch
beer
Cognate with English
bear
Cognate with Western Frisian
bear
Cognate with English
boar
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