teddy bear

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From Morris Michtom, the owner of a candy store in Brooklyn N.Y., who made the first “Teddy Bear” in the year 1902 in honor of then American President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt when he had heard that he had refused to shoot a bear cub on one of his hunting trips.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: دُمْيَةُ دُبّ (dumyatu dubb) — a stuffed toy bear
• Arabic: دَبْدُوب (dabdūb) — a stuffed toy bear
• Armenian: արջուկ (arǰuk) — a stuffed toy bear
• Belarusian: плю́шавы мі́шка (pljúšavy míška) — a stuffed toy bear
• Bulgarian: плю́шено мече́ (pljúšeno mečé) — a stuffed toy bear
• Catalan: osset de peluix — a stuffed toy bear
• Catalan: osset de feltre — a stuffed toy bear
• Cherokee: ᏖᏗ ᏲᎾ (tedi yona) — a stuffed toy bear
• Chinese Cantonese: 啤啤熊 — a stuffed toy bear
• Chinese Cantonese: 熊啤啤 — a stuffed toy bear
• Chinese Mandarin: 泰迪熊 (tàidíxióng) — a stuffed toy bear
• Chinese Mandarin: 玩具熊 (wánjùxióng) — a stuffed toy bear
• Cornish: orsik — a stuffed toy bear
• Czech: medvídek — a stuffed toy bear
• Danish: bamse — a stuffed toy bear
• Danish: teddybjørn — a stuffed toy bear
• Dutch: teddybeer — a stuffed toy bear
• Dutch: knuffelbeer — a stuffed toy bear
• Esperanto: pluŝa urso — a stuffed toy bear
• Finnish: nallekarhu — a stuffed toy bear
• Finnish: nalle — a stuffed toy bear
• French: ours en peluche — a stuffed toy bear
• French: nounours — a stuffed toy bear
• Galician: osiño de peluche — a stuffed toy bear
• German: Teddybär — a stuffed toy bear
• German: Teddy — a stuffed toy bear
• German: Kuschelbär — a stuffed toy bear
• German: Plüschbär — a stuffed toy bear
• German: Bärchen — a stuffed toy bear
• Greenlandic: bamse — a stuffed toy bear
• Hebrew: דֻּבִּי (dúbi) — a stuffed toy bear
• Hebrew: דֻּבּוֹן (dubón) — a stuffed toy bear
• Hungarian: maci — a stuffed toy bear
• Hungarian: mackó — a stuffed toy bear
• Icelandic: bangsi — a stuffed toy bear
• Interlingua: Teddy Bear — a stuffed toy bear
• Interlingua: Urseto Teddy — a stuffed toy bear
• Irish: béirín — a stuffed toy bear
• Irish: béirín bréige — a stuffed toy bear
• Italian: orsacchiotto — a stuffed toy bear
• Japanese: テディベア (tedibea) — a stuffed toy bear
• Japanese: 縫い包み (nuigurumi) — a stuffed toy bear
• Korean: 테디 베어 (tedi beeo) — a stuffed toy bear
• Korean: 곰 인형 (gom inhyeong) — a stuffed toy bear
• Latvian: lācītis — a stuffed toy bear
• Luxembourgish: Teddy — a stuffed toy bear
• Macedonian: мече (meče) — a stuffed toy bear
• Macedonian: плишано мече (plišano meče) — a stuffed toy bear
• Malay: beruang peluk — a stuffed toy bear
• Māori: tetipea — a stuffed toy bear
• Norwegian Bokmål: bamse — a stuffed toy bear
• Norwegian Bokmål: teddybjørn — a stuffed toy bear
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bamse — a stuffed toy bear
• Norwegian Nynorsk: teddybjørn — a stuffed toy bear
• Persian: خرسک (xersak) — a stuffed toy bear
• Persian: بامزی (bâmzi) — a stuffed toy bear
• Polish: pluszowy miś — a stuffed toy bear
• Portuguese: ursinho de pelúcia — a stuffed toy bear
• Russian: плю́шевый ми́шка (pljúševyj míška) — a stuffed toy bear
• Russian: ми́шка (míška) — a stuffed toy bear
• Samoan: teti pea — a stuffed toy bear
• Serbo-Croatian: меца — a stuffed toy bear
• Serbo-Croatian: меда — a stuffed toy bear
• Serbo-Croatian: медо — a stuffed toy bear
• Serbo-Croatian: meca — a stuffed toy bear
• Serbo-Croatian: meda — a stuffed toy bear
• Serbo-Croatian: medo — a stuffed toy bear
• Spanish: osito de peluche — a stuffed toy bear
• Swedish: teddybjörn — a stuffed toy bear
• Swedish: nalle — a stuffed toy bear
• Swedish: nallebjörn — a stuffed toy bear
• Thai: ตุ๊กตาหมี — a stuffed toy bear
• Thai: หมีเท็ดดี้ — a stuffed toy bear
• Turkish: ayıcık — a stuffed toy bear
• Turkish: peluş ayı — a stuffed toy bear
• Turkish: peluş ayıcık — a stuffed toy bear
• Ukrainian: плю́шевий ведме́дик (pljúševyj vedmédyk) — a stuffed toy bear
• Vietnamese: gấu bông — a stuffed toy bear
• Yiddish: בער (ber) — a stuffed toy bear
• Yiddish: פּליושן בערעלע (plyushn berele) — a stuffed toy bear
• Finnish: nallekarhu — lovable man
• French: nounours (more often "gros nounours") — lovable man
• Norwegian Bokmål: kosebamse — lovable man
• Polish: miś — lovable man
• Spanish: papi chulo — lovable man
• Spanish: osito — lovable man
• Swedish: nallebjörn — lovable man