bear (large omnivorous mammal of the family Ursidae) · brown bear, Ursus arctos · creditor
çekim: çoğul karhut · tamlayan karhun
eş: kontia, kontio, kouko, kouvo, mesikämmen, metsän kuningas
zıt: härkä
köken: From Proto-Finnic *karhu, probably derived from *karhëda; equivalent to karhea (“rough, coarse”) + -u. Originally a euphemism for *okci (whence oksi, ohto, and otso). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Swedish björn and sense 4 from English bear.