bear (animal) · bear (someone or something bear-like, e.g. a sturdy man) · safe, strongbox
çekim: çoğul Bären · tamlayan Bären
köken: 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.
köken: Inherited from Middle French bievre, from Old French bievre (“beaver”), from Latin beber, of Germanic or Celtic origin, both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”). Akin to Old High German bibar (German Biber (“beaver”)), Middle Dutch bēver (Dutch bever (“beaver”)), Old English befer (“beaver”), Old East Slavic бо́бръ (bóbrŭ). More at beaver.
beaver (rodent of the genus Castor) · European beaver (Castor fiber)
çekim: çoğul bevers
köken: From Middle Dutch bēver, from Old Dutch *bevar, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus.
köken: From Old Swedish bæver, from Middle Low German biber, bever, from Old Saxon biƀar, biƀor, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus. Displaced native bjur.
beaver (mammal of the genus Castor) · beaver fur · beaver (hairy vagina)
çekim: çoğul bobry · tamlayan bobra
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus Proto-Balto-Slavic *bébrus Proto-Slavic *bòbrъ Old Polish bóbr ▲ English beaversl. Polish bóbr Inherited from Old Polish bóbr. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from English beaver
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *udrós Proto-Indo-Iranian *udrás Sanskrit उद्र (udra) Prakrit 𑀉𑀤𑁆𑀤 (udda) Hindi ऊद Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit उद्द (udda), from Sanskrit उद्र (udrá), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“otter”). Doublet of उद्र (udra), a tatsama. Cognate with Russian вы́дра (výdra) and Old English otor (whence…
köken: From Early Modern Danish bever, from Old Danish biæver, biauær. Influenced by Old Norse bjórr, Middle Low German bēver. Cognate with German Bieber, Latin fiber.
köken: Learned borrowing from English (possibly American) beaver. Coined by Maria Sanjayani in a 1996 book titled Biwara dan Cucurut (original title: Beaver and shrew) to translate beaver. The term became more widely known in 2020 after being used on the Indonesian Wikipedia in December 2019.