Meaning and background
The story behind Umka
Umka is the name of a polar-bear cub in the 1969 Soviet animated film of the same name. The specialist animation catalogue confirms the production, while a distributor's description gives 'polar bear' as the word's Chukchi-language sense. The cultural reference is well documented, but the Chukchi lexical claim has not been checked against an original-language dictionary here. The entry therefore carries a qualified translation rather than full etymological certainty.
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Umka appears in 4 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
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