Dubb

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The Eurasian brown bear Ursus arctos syriacus.

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syrian bearsyrian brown bear

Etymology

From Arabic دُبّ (dubb, “bear”). The Anglicization appears only rarely or ad hoc. One Richard Pococke in 1738 reported that the dubber was seen only rarely in Egypt.

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