Arabic = دب (deb)
Afrikaans = beer
French = ours
Swahili = kubeba
Zulu = ukuhlupheka
"African" is not a language. It is a continent that contains 54 countries and more than 2100 completely different languages. Some estimates place the number of languages at around 3000. If you have any quesitons about African languages, you will have to specify the language. The most prominent languages spoken in Africa are: Afrikaans Amharic Arabic English French Fula Hausa Igbo Oroma Somali Swahili Yoruba Zulu
There are MANY Native American languages, so please specify which one you want the translation in.
There is no such language as "African". Hundreds of languages are spoken in Africa. If you meant "Afrikaans" which is a derivative of Dutch that is spoken in South Africa, the word is "Beer".
Whether you mean Native American or India, BOTH have MANY languages, not just one. So what specific language are you asking for?
In most of the native languages of the Americas it has no meaning at all. In some of the various Siouan languages (including Mandan) it signifies "bear".
Der Bär
El oso
Yona nvwati
A single word like that is unlikely to translate into "little black bear" in English, simply because "little" and "black" would have to be expressed as separate concepts in most native languages.The Ojibwe term makwa means simply "bear"; to say "black bear" is two words - makadewi-makwa. To make this a "little black bear" adds a diminutive ending (-oons): makadewi-makoons.So makoons on its own simply means a bear cub, which might be brown, black or any other colour.
Медведь, pronounced med-VED'
Standing Bear spoke Omaha-Ponca and English.
It is a nickname for Mihail (michael) but it also means bear