No sooner had the younger brother gone into the forest than he found the river, swam across it, and there on the other side was the she-bear, fast asleep.
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She-bear
Synonyms for "she-bear" (21 found)
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Translations
47 translations across 40 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- arushë noun (a female bear)
Asturian
1 entries- osa noun (a female bear)
Basque
1 entries- hartz eme noun (a female bear)
Breton
1 entries- arzhez noun (a female bear)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мечка noun (a female bear)
Catalan
1 entries- óssa noun (a female bear)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- مالۆس noun (a female bear)
Czech
1 entries- medvědice noun (a female bear)
Dutch
1 entries- berin noun (a female bear)
Esperanto
1 entries- ursino noun (a female bear)
Estonian
1 entries- emakaru noun (a female bear)
Finnish
1 entries- naaraskarhu noun (a female bear)
French
1 entries- ourse noun (a female bear)
Galician
1 entries- osa noun (a female bear)
German
1 entries- Bärin noun (a female bear)
Hebrew
1 entries- דֻּבָּה noun (a female bear)
Hindi
1 entries- रीछनी noun (a female bear)
Icelandic
1 entries- birna noun (a female bear)
Italian
1 entries- orsa noun (a female bear)
Japanese
1 entries- 雌熊 noun (a female bear)
Kashmiri
1 entries- ہاپٕژ noun (a female bear)
Kazakh
1 entries- кірекей noun (a female bear)
Latin
1 entries- ursa noun (a female bear)
Latvian
1 entries- lācene noun (a female bear)
Norwegian
1 entries- binne noun (a female bear)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- bere noun (a female bear)
- binne noun (a female bear)
- hobjørn noun (a female bear)
Old English
2 entries- bere noun (a female bear)
- biren noun (a female bear)
Old Norse
2 entries- bera noun (a female bear)
- birna noun (a female bear)
Polish
1 entries- niedźwiedzica noun (a female bear)
Portuguese
1 entries- ursa noun (a female bear)
Russian
1 entries- медве́дица noun (a female bear)
Slovak
1 entries- medvedica noun (a female bear)
Slovene
1 entries- medvedka noun (a female bear)
Spanish
1 entries- osa noun (a female bear)
Swedish
2 entries- björnhona noun (a female bear)
- björninna noun (a female bear)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ведме́диця noun (a female bear)
Unami
1 entries- nushèàxkw noun (a female bear)
Vietnamese
1 entries- gấu cái noun (a female bear)
Volapük
3 entries- ber noun (a female bear)
- hiber noun (a female bear)
- jiber noun (a female bear)
Welsh
1 entries- arthes noun (a female bear)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Elisha [...] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently[.]
Source: wiktionary
two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.