defecate

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• /ˈdɛfɪkət/
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Borrowed from Latin dēfaecātus, the perfect passive participle of dēfaecō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also faeces; cognate with French déféquer.

119 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَغَوَّطَ (taḡawwaṭa) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Armenian: արտաթորել (artatʻorel) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Armenian: կղկղել (kġkġel) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Armenian: ծրտել (crtel) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Assamese: হগা (hoga) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Assamese: পাইখেনা কৰা (paikhena kora) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Azerbaijani: qığlamaq — expel feces from one's bowels
• Bashkir: сысыу (sısıw) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Belarusian: спаражня́цца (sparažnjácca) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Belarusian: ка́каць (kákacʹ) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Belarusian: сраць (sracʹ) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Bulgarian: акам (akam) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Bulgarian: сера (sera) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Burmese: အီးပါ (i:pa) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Burmese: ဓာတ်သွား (dhatswa:) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Burmese: ကျင်ကြီးစွန့် (kyangkri:cwan.) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Burmese: မစင်စွန့် (ma.cangcwan.) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Burmese: ဝမ်းသွား (wam:swa:) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Burmese: အခင်းကြီးသွား (a.hkang:kri:swa:) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Burmese: ချေးပါ (hkye:pa) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Catalan: defecar — expel feces from one's bowels
• Cebuano: hugaw — expel feces from one's bowels
• Chickasaw: aya — expel feces from one's bowels
• Chinese Cantonese: 屙屎 (o1 si2) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Chinese: 放屎 (zh-min-nan) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Chinese Mandarin: 大便 (dàbiàn) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Chinese Mandarin: 拉屎 (lāshǐ) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Chinese Mandarin: 排大便 (pái dàbiàn) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Chinese Mandarin: 大解 (dàjiě) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Ngazidja Comorian: hunya — expel feces from one's bowels
• Czech: vyprázdnit se — expel feces from one's bowels
• Czech: kálet — expel feces from one's bowels
• Czech: vykálet se — expel feces from one's bowels
• Danish: defækere — expel feces from one's bowels
• Dutch: poepen — expel feces from one's bowels
• Dutch: een bruine trui breien — expel feces from one's bowels
• Egyptian: f:g:n- (fgn) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Esperanto: feki — expel feces from one's bowels
• Esperanto: koti — expel feces from one's bowels
• Finnish: ulostaa — expel feces from one's bowels
• French: déféquer — expel feces from one's bowels
• French: aller à la selle — expel feces from one's bowels
• French: couler un bronze — expel feces from one's bowels
• Galician: defecar — expel feces from one's bowels
• German: defäkieren — expel feces from one's bowels
• German: koten — expel feces from one's bowels
• Greek: αφοδεύω (afodévo) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Ancient Greek: ἀφοδεύω (aphodeúō) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Hindi: हगना (hagnā) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Hindi: मलत्याग करना (malatyāg karnā) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Hungarian: székel — expel feces from one's bowels
• Ido: fekifar — expel feces from one's bowels
• Ilocano: agtae — expel feces from one's bowels
• Interlingua: defecar — expel feces from one's bowels
• Irish: cac — expel feces from one's bowels
• Irish: do chac a dhéanamh — expel feces from one's bowels
• Italian: defecare — expel feces from one's bowels
• Italian: liberarsi — expel feces from one's bowels
• Japanese: 排便する (haiben suru) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Jarai: eh — expel feces from one's bowels
• Javanese: ꦔꦶꦱꦶꦁ (ngising) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Javanese: ꦧꦼꦧꦚꦸ (bebanyu) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Javanese: ꦮꦮꦿꦠꦤ꧀ (wawratan) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Javanese: ꦧꦺꦴꦧꦺꦴꦠꦤ꧀ (bobotan) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Kapampangan: takla — expel feces from one's bowels
• Kazakh: тышу (tyşu) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Khmer: បត់ជើងធំ (bɑtcəəngthum) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Khmer: បន្ទោរបង់ (bântoŭrbâng) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Korean: 배변하다 (baebyeonhada) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Korean: 대변을 보다 (daebyeoneul boda) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Northern Kurdish: rîtin — expel feces from one's bowels
• Northern Kurdish: gû kirin — expel feces from one's bowels
• Latin: defaeco — expel feces from one's bowels
• Latin: cuniō — expel feces from one's bowels
• Malay: berak — expel feces from one's bowels
• Manchu: ᡶᠠᠵᠠᠮᠪᡳ (fajambi) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Māori: whakatikotiko — expel feces from one's bowels
• Māori: tiko — expel feces from one's bowels
• Māori: roke — expel feces from one's bowels
• Mongolian: баах (baax) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Nǀuu: cxâi — expel feces from one's bowels
• Occitan: defecar — expel feces from one's bowels
• Occitan: cagar — expel feces from one's bowels
• Old English: sċītan — expel feces from one's bowels
• Persian: مدفوع کردن (madfu' kardan) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Polish: wypróżniać się — expel feces from one's bowels
• Polish: wypróżnić się — expel feces from one's bowels
• Polish: defekować — expel feces from one's bowels
• Polish: zdefekować — expel feces from one's bowels
• Portuguese: defecar — expel feces from one's bowels
• Quechua: akay — expel feces from one's bowels
• Quechua: ismay — expel feces from one's bowels
• Romanian: defeca — expel feces from one's bowels
• Romanian: căca — expel feces from one's bowels
• Russian: испражня́ться (ispražnjátʹsja) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Russian: ка́кать (kákatʹ) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Russian: срать (sratʹ) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Sanskrit: हदति (hadati) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Spanish: defecar — expel feces from one's bowels
• Swedish: bajsa — expel feces from one's bowels
• Swedish: skita — expel feces from one's bowels
• Swedish: defekera — expel feces from one's bowels
• Tagalog: tumae — expel feces from one's bowels
• Tagalog: dumumi — expel feces from one's bowels
• Tatar: тычу (tıçu) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Thai: อุจจาระ (ùt-jaa-rá) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Thai: อึ (ʉ̀) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Thai: ไปทุ่ง — expel feces from one's bowels
• Turkish: dışkılamak — expel feces from one's bowels
• Turkish: sıçmak — expel feces from one's bowels
• Turkish: pislemek — expel feces from one's bowels
• Ottoman Turkish: صیچمق (sıçmak) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎗𐎀 (ḫrả) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Ukrainian: випоро́жнюватися (vyporóžnjuvatysja) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Ukrainian: ка́кати (kákaty) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Ukrainian: сра́ти (sráty) — expel feces from one's bowels
• Unami: màskti — expel feces from one's bowels
• Vietnamese: đại tiện — expel feces from one's bowels
• Welsh: ysgarthu — expel feces from one's bowels