bamse

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian bamse

Pronunciation

Noun

bamse c (singular definite bamsen, plural indefinite bamser)

  1. teddy bear
  2. (informal) bear
  3. a burly man

Inflection

Declension of bamse
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bamse bamsen bamser bamserne
genitive bamses bamsens bamsers bamsernes

Synonyms

Further reading

Greenlandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish bamse.

Noun

bamse

  1. teddy bear

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Related to Swedish bamse. In Norwegian, earliest attested by Christen Jensøn in 1646 and by David Klim in 1670-90s.

Noun

bamse m (definite singular bamsen, indefinite plural bamsar, definite plural bamsane)

  1. a teddy bear
  2. a bear
    Synonym: bjørn
  3. a big clumsy person

Descendants

  • → Danish: bamse

References

  • “bamse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “bamse” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
  • Torleiv Hannaas (1911) Ældre norske Sprogminder : Ordsamling fraa Robyggjelaget (in Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • Torleiv Hannaas (1915) Ældre norske Sprogminder : Christen Jensøns Den Norske Dictionarium (in Norwegian Nynorsk)

Swedish

Etymology

Related to Norwegian Nynorsk bamse

Noun

bamse c

  1. (colloquial, often endearing) a bear
    Synonym: nalle
    Barnen fick mata den snälla bamsen
    The children got to feed the kind bear
  2. (colloquial) something large, a biggun
    Synonym: bamsing
    Wow! Vilken bamse.
    Wow! That's a biggun.

Declension

Declension of bamse
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bamse bamses
definite bamsen bamsens
plural indefinite bamsar bamsars
definite bamsarna bamsarnas

See also

References

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