bear

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

This is generally taken to be from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), related to, , and.

On this theory, the Germanic languages replaced the older name of the bear,, with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare 🇨🇬.

However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in, but it also seems to have given the g in  and the w in ).

Noun

 * 1)  A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family.
 * 2)  The meat of this animal.
 * 3)  A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
 * 4)  An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
 * 5)  A state policeman.
 * 6)  A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
 * 7)  A koala (bear).
 * 8)  A portable punching machine.
 * 9)  A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
 * 10)  The fifteenth Lenormand card.
 * 11)  Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
 * 1)  A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
 * 2)  A koala (bear).
 * 3)  A portable punching machine.
 * 4)  A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
 * 5)  The fifteenth Lenormand card.
 * 6)  Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
 * 1)  A koala (bear).
 * 2)  A portable punching machine.
 * 3)  A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
 * 4)  The fifteenth Lenormand card.
 * 5)  Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
 * 1)  The fifteenth Lenormand card.
 * 2)  Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:bear
 * see Thesaurus:troublemaker
 * see Thesaurus:police officer

Coordinate terms terms

 * otter, twink, twunk

Verb

 * 1)  To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.

Adjective

 * 1)  Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * like

Verb

 * 1)   To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
 * 2)  To carry (weapons, flags or symbols of rank, office, etc.) upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with (weapons, etc.).
 * 3)  To wear (garments, pieces of jewellery, etc.).
 * 4)  To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).
 * 5)  To have or display (a mark or other feature).
 * 6)  To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms.
 * 7)  To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look).
 * 8)  To have (a name, title, or designation).
 * 9)  To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth).
 * 10)  To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms.
 * 11)  To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body;  to have (an appendage).
 * 12)  To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).
 * 13)  To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.
 * 14)  To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.
 * 15)  To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else.
 * 16)  To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.
 * 17)  To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).
 * 18)  To behave or conduct (oneself).
 * 19)  To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).
 * 20)  To carry a burden or burdens.
 * 21)  To take or bring (a person) with oneself; to conduct.
 * 22) To support, sustain, or endure.
 * 23)   To support or sustain; to hold up.
 * 24)  To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
 * 25)  To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
 * 26)  To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
 * 27)  To warrant, justify the need for.
 * 28) To support, keep up, or maintain.
 * 29)  To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
 * 30) * 1732–4, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Longmans, Green & Co, 1879, p. 10:
 * admitted to that equal sky, / His faithful dog shall bear him company.
 * 1)  To carry on, or maintain; to have.
 * 2) To press or impinge upon.
 * 3)  To push, thrust, press.
 * 4)  To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
 * 5)  Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
 * 6) * 2012, Ronald D. Utt, Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron
 * Constitution's gun crews crossed the deck to the already loaded larboard guns as Bainbridge wore the ship around on a larboard tack and recrossed his path in a rare double raking action to bring her guns to bear again on Java's damaged stern.
 * 1) To produce, yield, give birth to.
 * 2)  To give birth to (someone or something).
 * 3)  To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
 * 4)  To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
 * 5)  To gain or win.
 * 6) * April 5, 1549,, The Fifth Sermon Preached Before King Edward (probably not in original spelling)
 * She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.
 * 1)  To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).
 * 2)  To behave or conduct (oneself).
 * 3)  To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).
 * 4)  To carry a burden or burdens.
 * 5)  To take or bring (a person) with oneself; to conduct.
 * 6) To support, sustain, or endure.
 * 7)   To support or sustain; to hold up.
 * 8)  To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
 * 9)  To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
 * 10)  To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
 * 11)  To warrant, justify the need for.
 * 12) To support, keep up, or maintain.
 * 13)  To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
 * 14) * 1732–4, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Longmans, Green & Co, 1879, p. 10:
 * admitted to that equal sky, / His faithful dog shall bear him company.
 * 1)  To carry on, or maintain; to have.
 * 2) To press or impinge upon.
 * 3)  To push, thrust, press.
 * 4)  To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
 * 5)  Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
 * 6) * 2012, Ronald D. Utt, Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron
 * Constitution's gun crews crossed the deck to the already loaded larboard guns as Bainbridge wore the ship around on a larboard tack and recrossed his path in a rare double raking action to bring her guns to bear again on Java's damaged stern.
 * 1) To produce, yield, give birth to.
 * 2)  To give birth to (someone or something).
 * 3)  To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
 * 4)  To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
 * 5)  To gain or win.
 * 6) * April 5, 1549,, The Fifth Sermon Preached Before King Edward (probably not in original spelling)
 * She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.
 * 1)  To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
 * 2)  To warrant, justify the need for.
 * 3) To support, keep up, or maintain.
 * 4)  To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
 * 5) * 1732–4, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Longmans, Green & Co, 1879, p. 10:
 * admitted to that equal sky, / His faithful dog shall bear him company.
 * 1)  To carry on, or maintain; to have.
 * 2) To press or impinge upon.
 * 3)  To push, thrust, press.
 * 4)  To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
 * 5)  Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
 * 6) * 2012, Ronald D. Utt, Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron
 * Constitution's gun crews crossed the deck to the already loaded larboard guns as Bainbridge wore the ship around on a larboard tack and recrossed his path in a rare double raking action to bring her guns to bear again on Java's damaged stern.
 * 1) To produce, yield, give birth to.
 * 2)  To give birth to (someone or something).
 * 3)  To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
 * 4)  To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
 * 5)  To gain or win.
 * 6) * April 5, 1549,, The Fifth Sermon Preached Before King Edward (probably not in original spelling)
 * She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.
 * 1)  Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
 * 2) * 2012, Ronald D. Utt, Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron
 * Constitution's gun crews crossed the deck to the already loaded larboard guns as Bainbridge wore the ship around on a larboard tack and recrossed his path in a rare double raking action to bring her guns to bear again on Java's damaged stern.
 * 1) To produce, yield, give birth to.
 * 2)  To give birth to (someone or something).
 * 3)  To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
 * 4)  To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
 * 5)  To gain or win.
 * 6) * April 5, 1549,, The Fifth Sermon Preached Before King Edward (probably not in original spelling)
 * She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.
 * 1)  To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
 * 2)  To gain or win.
 * 3) * April 5, 1549,, The Fifth Sermon Preached Before King Edward (probably not in original spelling)
 * She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.
 * 1)  To gain or win.
 * 2) * April 5, 1549,, The Fifth Sermon Preached Before King Edward (probably not in original spelling)
 * She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.
 * 1) * April 5, 1549,, The Fifth Sermon Preached Before King Edward (probably not in original spelling)
 * She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.

Usage notes

 * The past participle of bear is usually borne:
 * He could not have borne that load.
 * She had borne five children.
 * This is not to be borne!
 * However, when bear is used in the passive voice to mean "to be given birth to" literally or figuratively (e.g. be created, be the result of), the form used is born:
 * She was born on May 3.
 * Racism is usually born out of a real or feared loss of power to a minority or a real or feared decrease in relative prosperity compared to that of the minority.
 * Born three years earlier, he was the eldest of his siblings.
 * "The idea to create [the Blue Ridge Parkway] was born in the travail of the Great Depression ." (Tim Pegram, The Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot: A Park Ranger's Memoir, ISBN 0786431407, 2007, page 1)
 * Both spellings have been used in the construction born(e) into the world/family and born(e) of or to someone (as a child). The borne spellings are more frequent in older and religious writings.
 * He was born(e) to Mr. Smith.
 * She was born(e) into the most powerful family in the city.
 * "[M]y father was borne to a Swedish mother and a Norwegian father, both devout Lutherans." (David Ross, Good Morning Corfu: Living Abroad Against All Odds, ISBN 1452450323, 2009)
 * In some colloquial speech, can be found for both the simple past and the past participle, although it is usually considered nonstandard and avoided in writing. Similarly,  may be extended to the past participle; the same provisos apply for this form.

Translations

 * Indonesian:, , , , , ,

Noun

 * 1) * 1800, Tuke, Agric., 119:
 * There are several plots of those species of barley called big, which is six-rowed barley; or bear, which is four-rowed, cultivated.
 * 1) * 1802-1816, Papers on Sutherland Estate Management, published in 1972, Scottish History Society, Publications:
 * Your Horses are Getting Pease Straw, and looking very well. The 2 Stacks of Bear formerly mentioned as Put in by Mr Bookless is not fully dressed as yet so that I cannot say at present what Quantity they may Produce.
 * 1) * 1802-1816, Papers on Sutherland Estate Management, published in 1972, Scottish History Society, Publications:
 * Your Horses are Getting Pease Straw, and looking very well. The 2 Stacks of Bear formerly mentioned as Put in by Mr Bookless is not fully dressed as yet so that I cannot say at present what Quantity they may Produce.
 * 1) * 1802-1816, Papers on Sutherland Estate Management, published in 1972, Scottish History Society, Publications:
 * Your Horses are Getting Pease Straw, and looking very well. The 2 Stacks of Bear formerly mentioned as Put in by Mr Bookless is not fully dressed as yet so that I cannot say at present what Quantity they may Produce.

Etymology 4
From, of obscure origin, but compare 🇨🇬. Possibly cognate to Low German büre, whence 🇨🇬, which in turn has been compared to 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * like
 * like

Noun

 * 1) * 1905, Emily Wilder Leavitt, Palmer Groups: John Melvin of Charlestown and Concord, Mass. and His Descendants ; Gathered and Arranged for Mr. Lowell Mason Palmer of New York, page 24:
 * I give to my Grand Child Lidea Carpenter the Coverlid that her mother spun and my pillow bear and a pint Cup &amp; my great Pott that belongs to the Pott and Trammels.
 * 1) * 1905, Emily Wilder Leavitt, Palmer Groups: John Melvin of Charlestown and Concord, Mass. and His Descendants ; Gathered and Arranged for Mr. Lowell Mason Palmer of New York, page 24:
 * I give to my Grand Child Lidea Carpenter the Coverlid that her mother spun and my pillow bear and a pint Cup &amp; my great Pott that belongs to the Pott and Trammels.
 * 1) * 1905, Emily Wilder Leavitt, Palmer Groups: John Melvin of Charlestown and Concord, Mass. and His Descendants ; Gathered and Arranged for Mr. Lowell Mason Palmer of New York, page 24:
 * I give to my Grand Child Lidea Carpenter the Coverlid that her mother spun and my pillow bear and a pint Cup &amp; my great Pott that belongs to the Pott and Trammels.

Alternative forms

 * bere

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  bear