feces

See also: fèces

English

Alternative forms

faeces (British), fæces (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfiːsiːz/
Rhymes: -iːsiːz

Noun

feces pl (plural only) (Canada, US)

Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement.

Usage notes

This word can be used with plural verbs ("feces have a strong smell") or singular ones ("feces has a strong smell"). Use with plural verbs is more common, especially in Britain, and is the only use recognized by some dictionaries,[1] while others recognize both plural and singular use.[2]

Synonyms

(discharged animal waste): excrement, faecal matter, guano (of birds or bats only), manure (not used of human faeces)
night soil (euphemistic)
doo, poo, poop, boo-boo, and doody (euphemistic or hypocoristic)
crap, shit, turd, log (vulgar)
See also Thesaurus:feces

Related terms

Translations

digested waste material discharged from the bowels — See also translations at poo,‎ shit,‎ stool

Aari: tóoni
Afrikaans: ontlasting
Albanian: feçe f
Apache:
Western Apache: bichan
Arabic: بِرَاز‎ m (birāz), سَلْح‎ m (salḥ), زُبْل‎ (ar) m (zubl) (of animals), رَوُث‎ m (rawuṯ) (of animals), بَعْر‎ m (baʿr) (of animals), فَضَلَات‎ f pl (faḍalāt)
Egyptian Arabic: براز‎ m pl (burāz), فضلات‎ f pl (faḍalāt), زبل‎ m (zebl) (of birds), جلة‎ f (gela) (of livestock), خرا‎ m (ḵara) (vulgar), كاكا‎ f (kaka) (childish)

Moroccan Arabic: جروج‎ (ḵruj) (polite), كاكا‎ (kaka) (childish), زبل‎ (zbel) (somewhat vulgar), بزق‎ (bzaq) (of birds), بريو‎ (berriw) (of sheep, camels), خضار‎ (xedar) (of bovines), رود‎ (roud) (of equines)
Armenian: կղանք (hy) (kłankʿ), կղկղանք (hy) (kłkłankʿ), արտաթորանք (hy) (artatʿorankʿ)
Assamese: হগা (hoga), গু (gu), পাইখেনা (paikhena), শৌচ (xous), মল (mol)
Azerbaijani: nəcis
Belarusian: фека́ліі f pl (fjekálii), спаражне́ння n pl (sparažnjénnja), экскрыме́нты m pl (ekskrymjénty), кал m (kal)
Bengali: টাট্টী (ṭaṭṭī)
Bulgarian: фека́лии f pl (fekálii), екскреме́нти (bg) m pl (ekskreménti), изпражне́ния n pl (izpražnénija)
Burmese: ချေး (hkye:), မစင် (my) (ma.cang)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 屎 (si²), 糞便, 粪便 (fan³ bin⁶)

Mandarin: 糞 (zh), 粪 (zh) (fèn), 糞便 (zh), 粪便 (zh) (fènbiàn), 屎 (zh) (shǐ)
Classical Nahuatl: cuitlatl
Czech: stolice (cs) f, výkal (cs) m
Danish: afføring (da) c
Dutch: faeces (nl) pl, uitwerpselen (nl) n
Esperanto: ekskremento, fekaĵo (vulgar)
Estonian: fekaalid pl, roe (et)
Faroese: skarn n
Finnish: uloste (fi)
French: fèces (fr) f pl, excrément (fr) m
Gamilaraay: guna
Georgian: ფეკალია (peḳalia), განავალი (ganavali)
German: Fäkalien (de) f pl, Kot (de) m
Greek: περιττώματα (el) n pl (perittómata), κόπρανα (el) n pl (kóprana), (obscene) σκατά (el) n pl (skatá)
Gujarati: છી (chī)
Hindi: टट्टी (hi) (ṭaṭṭī), मल (hi) m (mal)
Hungarian: széklet (hu), ürülék (hu)
Ido: feko (io)
Ilocano: takki
Indonesian: tinja (id)
Italian: feci (it) f pl
Japanese: 糞 (ja) (ふん, fun), 糞便 (ふんべん, funben), 大便 (ja) (だいべん, daiben), うんこ (ja) (unko), うんち (ja) (unchi)
Kazakh: нысап (nısap)
Khmer: លាមក (km) (liəmŭək), ឧច្ចារ (km) (ʾuccaaraʾ), វច្ច (km) (vɑccaʾ), គូទ (km) (kuut)
Korean: 똥 (ko) (ttong), 뒤 (ko) (dwi) (euphemism), 응가 (ko) (eungga)
Kyrgyz: фекалия (ky) (fekaliya)

Lakota: čheslí
Lao: ອາຈົມ (’ā chom), ອຸດຈາຣະ (’ut chā ra), ຂີ້ (lo) (khī)
Latin: faeces
Lü: ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii²)
Macedonian: измет m (izmet), екскреме́нт m (ekskremént)
Malay: tinja (ms)
Maori: hamuti, roke, tūtae, tiko, hamiti, kurakura, weta
Navajo: chąąʼ
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: avføring (no) m or f

Nynorsk: avføring f
Pashto: سوپه‎ f (súрa)
Persian: گه‎ (fa) (goh), ان‎ (fa) (an), پهن‎ (fa) (pehen), مدفوع‎ (fa) (madfu'), براز‎ (fa) (borâz)
Polish: kał (pl) m
Portuguese: fezes (pt) f pl
Quechua: aka (qu)
Romanian: fecale f pl
Russian: испражне́ния (ru) n pl (ispražnénija), экскреме́нты (ru) m pl (ekskreménty), кал (ru) m (kal) (medicine), фека́лии (ru) f pl (fekálii)
Samoan: tae
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: измет m

Roman: izmet (sh) m
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: výkal m
Slovene: iztrebek m, blato (sl) n
Spanish: heces (es) f pl
Swahili: mavi pl (nc 6)
Swedish: avföring (sv), träck (sv)
Tagalog: tae (tl), dumi
Tajik: саргин (sargin), наҷосат (najosat)
Tausug: tay'
Thai: อาจม (aa-jom), อุจจาระ (th) (ùt-jaa-rá), ขี้ (th) (kîi)
Turkish: bok (tr), fışkı (tr), dışkı (tr), kaka (tr), pislik (tr)
Turkmen: bok
Ukrainian: фека́лії f pl (fekáliji), ви́порожнення n (výporožnennja), екскреме́нти m pl (ekskreménty), кал m (kal)
Urdu: باٹھروم‎ (bathrum), پا خانہ‎ (pā ḵẖānā)
Uyghur: گەندە‎ (gende)
Uzbek: kal (uz), axlat (uz), najas (uz), tezak (uz)
Vietnamese: cứt (vi), phân (vi)
Volapük: jiedot (vo)
Walloon: crotes (general, neutral), caca (polite), stron (wa) (used of animals, or impolitely of humans), flate (wa) (of bovines), polene (wa) (of poultry), crotin (of equines), petale (wa), pecale (of rabbits, small ruminants), crotale (of rabbits, small ruminants)
Zhuang: haex

References

“feces” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
“feces” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2019.

Latin

Noun

fecēs

nominative plural of fex
accusative plural of fex
vocative plural of fex

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[1] “feces” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

[2] “feces” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2019.