bruin
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈbɹuɪn/
Noun

bruin (plural bruins)

  1. A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.
    • 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XVII:
      The mother sought the one gone / astray, for the lost she longs: / she ran great swamps as a wolf / trod the wilds as a bruin / waters as an otter roamed […].



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