feces

Etymology
From, nominative plural of , further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a language.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * 1) Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; 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, while others recognize both plural and singular use.
 * A singular form is rarely used, in some academic contexts, particularly when the spelling  is used for the plural.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , , and
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 * ,, , , , and
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 * ,, , , , and
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Translations

 * Aari: tóoni
 * Afrikaans: ontlasting
 * Aklanon: tai
 * Albanian: feçe
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: bichan
 * Arabic: بِرَاز, سَلْح,, رَوْث , بَعْر , فَضَلَات
 * Egyptian Arabic: براز, فضلات, زبل, جلة , خرا , كاكا
 * Moroccan Arabic: خرا, خروج, كاكا , بزق , بريو , روت
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Assamese: হগা, গু, পাইখেনা, শৌচ, মল
 * Azerbaijani: nəcis
 * Belarusian: фека́ліі, спаражне́ння, экскрыме́нты, кал
 * Bengali: টাট্টী
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: фека́лии,, изпражнение
 * Burmese: ချေး, ,
 * Cebuano: tai
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 屎, 糞便
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: cuitlatl
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Eastern Arrernte:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: ekskremento, fekaĵo (vulgar)
 * Estonian: fekaalid,
 * Faroese: skarn
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Gamilaraay: guna
 * Georgian: ფეკალია, განავალი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: κοπρία, σκῶρ, μίνθος,  ὄνθος
 * Gujarati: છી, ગૂ, હંગણ
 * Hindi:, , , , , , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: takki
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Ivatan: tachi
 * Japanese:, , , ,
 * Javanese:, tinja, ising
 * Kaingang: jãfa
 * Kapampangan: takla
 * Kazakh: нысап
 * Khmer:, , ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lakota: čheslí
 * Lao: ອາຈົມ, ອຸດຈາຣະ,
 * Latin: faeces
 * Lü: ᦃᦲᧉ
 * Macedonian: измет, екскреме́нт
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:, ,
 * Mansaka: tai
 * Maori: hamuti, roke, tūtae, tiko, hamiti, kurakura, weta
 * Maranao: ta'i
 * Navajo: chąąʼ
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: avføring
 * Ojibwe: moo
 * Pashto: سوپه
 * Persian:, , , ,
 * Pitjantjatjara:
 * Plautdietsch: Kak
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian: fecale
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Samoan: tae
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: измет
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Slovak: výkal
 * Slovene: iztrebek,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:, dumi
 * Tajik: саргин, наҷосат
 * Tausug: tay'
 * Thai: อาจม, ,
 * Turkish:, , , ,
 * Turkmen: bok
 * Ukrainian: фека́лії, ви́порожнення, екскреме́нти, кал
 * Urdu: باٹھروم, پا خانہ, پاخانہ
 * Uyghur: گەندە
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: crotes, caca , ,  ,  , crotin , , pecale , crotale
 * Warlpiri:
 * Yakut: саах
 * Yiddish: צואה
 * Zhuang: haex