fabric

English

Alternative forms

fabrick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of forge, borrowed from Old French.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfæb.ɹɪk/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)

(archaic) Structure, building.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
  Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
(archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
- (Can we date this quote?) Milman
  Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
(archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
cloth of a beautiful fabric
The framework underlying a structure.
the fabric of our lives

the fabric of the universe
A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
cotton fabric
(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:fabric

Descendants

→ Irish: fabraic

Translations

structure, building

Bulgarian: зда́ние (bg) n (zdánie), постро́йка (bg) f (postrójka)
Finnish: rakenne (fi)
French: structure (fr)
Galician: estructura (gl) f

Greek: δομή (el) f (domí)
Italian: struttura (it) f, fabbricato (it) m
Romanian: structură (ro) f
Russian: структу́ра (ru) f (struktúra), зда́ние (ru) n (zdánije), постро́йка (ru) f (postrójka)

act of construction

Bulgarian: строеж (bg) m (stroež)
Finnish: rakentaminen (fi)

Russian: строи́тельство (ru) n (stroítelʹstvo)
Scottish Gaelic: dèanamh m

framework underlying a structure

Bulgarian: структу́ра (bg) f (struktúra)
Danish: struktur (da) c, system (da) n
Dutch: weefsel (nl) n
Finnish: rakenne (fi), kehikko, kudos (fi)
German: Bau (de) m, Rohbau (de) m, Struktur (de) f
Greek: δομή (el) f (domí), διάρθρωση (el) f (diárthrosi), ιστός (el) m (istós), πλέγμα (el) n (plégma)
Hungarian: szövevény (hu), szerkezet (hu)

Italian: struttura (it) f, tessuto (it) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: byggesten m, struktur (no) m
Polish: struktura (pl) f
Portuguese: estrutura (pt) f, rede (pt) f
Russian: структу́ра (ru) f (struktúra)

material made of fibers

Albanian: pëlhurë (sq) f
Arabic: قُمَاش‎ (ar) m (qumāš)
Armenian: կտոր (hy) (ktor), գործվածք (hy) (gorcvackʿ)
Azerbaijani: parça (az), qumaş, material
Bashkir: туҡыма (tuqïma)
Belarusian: ткані́на f (tkanína)
Bengali: বুনন (bunôn)
Bulgarian: плат (bg) m (plat), тъка́н (bg) f (tǎkán)
Burmese: ထည် (my) (htany)
Catalan: tela (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 織物 (zh), 织物 (zh) (zhīwù)
Czech: tkanina (cs) f
Danish: stof (da) n
Dutch: stof (nl) f, weefsel (nl) n
Estonian: riie, kangas
Finnish: kangas (fi)
French: tissu (fr) m, textile (fr) m
Galician: tea f, tecido m, téximo m, estofo m
Georgian: ქსოვილი (ksovili)
German: Gewebe (de) n, Textil (de) n, Stoff (de) n
Greek: ύφασμα (el) n (ýfasma)
Ancient: ὕφασμα n (húphasma)
Hebrew: בַּד‎ (he) m (bad)
Hindi: कपड़ा (hi) m (kapṛā)
Hungarian: textil (hu), szövet (hu), anyag (hu), kelme (hu)
Icelandic: efni (is) n
Irish: fabraic f
Italian: tessuto (it) m
Japanese: 織物 (ja) (おりもの, orimono)
Kazakh: мата (kk) (mata), материя (materïya), материал (kk) (materïal)
Khmer: ក្រណាត់ (krɑnat)
Korean: 직물 (ko) (jingmul), 옷감 (ko) (otgam)
Kyrgyz: кездеме (ky) m (kezdeme), маңыз (ky) m (mañız), мазмун (ky) m (mazmun), материя (materiya), материал (ky) (material)

Lao: ຜ້າ (phā)
Latin: textum
Latvian: audekls m
Lithuanian: medžiaga (lt) f
Macedonian: ткаенина f (tkaenina)
Mongolian: бөс (mn) (bös), даавуу (mn) (daavuu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tøy (no) n, stoff (no) n
Occitan: teissut (oc), tela (oc)
Persian: پارچه‎ (fa) (pârče), قماش‎ (fa) (qumâš)
Polish: materiał (pl) m, tkanina (pl) f
Portuguese: pano (pt) m, tecido (pt) m
Romanian: țesătură (ro) f, material țesut n, textile (ro) n pl
Russian: ткань (ru) f (tkanʹ), материа́л (ru) m (materiál), мате́рия (ru) f (matérija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тканина f, материјал m, штоф m

Roman: tkanina (sh) f, materijal (sh) m, štof (sh) m
Slovak: tkanina f
Slovene: tkanina (sl) f, blago n
Southern Altai: бӧс (bös)
Spanish: tela (es) f, tejido (es) m, género (es) m
Swedish: tyg (sv) n
Tagalog: tela (tl)
Tajik: порча (porča), матоъ (tg) (matoʾ), газвор (gazvor), қумош (qumoš)
Tatar: тукыма (tt) (tuqıma)
Thai: ผ้า (th) (pâa)
Turkish: kumaş (tr)
Turkmen: mata, materiýa
Ukrainian: ткани́на (uk) f (tkanýna)
Urdu: کپڑا‎ m (kapṛā)
Uzbek: gazlama (uz), gazmol (uz), mato (uz), materiya (uz)
Vietnamese: vải (vi)
Yiddish: שטאָף‎ (shtof)

texture of a cloth

Bulgarian: материя (bg) f (materija)
Danish: struktur (da) c, sammensætning c
Dutch: textuur (nl)
Finnish: kudos (fi)
Galician: tecedura f
German: Fasern (de) n, Struktur (de) f
Greek: υφή (el) f (yfí)

Hungarian: szövés (hu), anyagszerkezet
Italian: tessuto (it) m
Polish: tekstura f, faktura (pl) f, struktura (pl) f
Portuguese: tato (pt) m, tecido (pt)
Russian: мате́рия (ru) f (matérija)
Scottish Gaelic: dèanamh m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Basque: ^{(please verify)} ehun (eu)
French: ^{(please verify)} tissu (fr)
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} בד‎ (he) m
Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} tekstil

Slovak: ^{(please verify)} tkanina, ^{(please verify)} látka
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} tejido (es)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} tyg (sv), ^{(please verify)} väv (sv), ^{(please verify)} system (sv), ^{(please verify)} konstruktion (sv)