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feces

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈfiːsiːz/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iːsiːz
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, US, plural, plural-only

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: excrement, shit

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fecal matter, faecal matter, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product

Narrower terms: dog shit, dog do, doggy do, dog turd, crap, dirt, shit, shite, poop, turd, droppings, dung, muck, meconium, melena, melaena

History

Etymology

From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.

Across languages

Translations

235 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Aari: tóoni — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Afrikaans: ontlasting — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Aklanon: tai — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Albanian: jashtëqitje — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Western Apache: bichan — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: بِرَاز (birāz) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: سَلْح (salḥ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: زِبْل (zibl) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: رَوْث (rawṯ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: بَعْر (baʕr) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: فَضَلَات (faḍalāt) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: براز (burāz) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: فضلات (faḍalāt) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: زبل (zebl) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: جلة (gela) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: خرا (ḵara) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: كاكا (kaka) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: خرا (ḵrā) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: خروج (ḵrūj) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: كاكا (kākka) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: بزق (bzaq) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: بريو (barrīw) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Arabic: روت (rawt) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Armenian: կղանք (kġankʻ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Armenian: կղկղանք (kġkġankʻ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Armenian: արտաթորանք (artatʻorankʻ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Assamese: হগা (hoga) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Assamese: গু (gu) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Assamese: পাইখেনা (paikhena) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Assamese: শৌচ (xous) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Assamese: মল (mol) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Azerbaijani: nəcis — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Belarusian: фека́ліі (fjekálii) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Belarusian: спаражне́ння (sparažnjénnja) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Belarusian: экскрыме́нты (ekskrymjénty) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Belarusian: кал (kal) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Bengali: টাট্টী (ṭaṭṭi) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Central Bikol: udo — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Bulgarian: фека́лии (fekálii) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Bulgarian: екскреме́нти (ekskreménti) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Bulgarian: изпражне́ния (izpražnénija) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Burmese: ချေး (hkye:) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Burmese: မစင် (ma.cang) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Burmese: အလေး (a.le:) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Cebuano: tai — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Chinese Cantonese: 屎 (si2) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Chinese Cantonese: 糞便 /粪便 — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糞 /粪 (fèn) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糞便 /粪便 (fènbiàn) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Chinese Mandarin: 屎 (shǐ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Czech: stolice — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Czech: výkal — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Danish: afføring — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Dutch: faeces — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Dutch: uitwerpselen — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Egyptian: H-s-F52 (ḥs) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Esperanto: ekskremento — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Esperanto: fekaĵo — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Estonian: fekaalid — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Estonian: roe — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Faroese: skarn — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Finnish: uloste — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Finnish: sonta — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • French: fèces — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • French: excrément — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Gamilaraay: guna — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Georgian: ფეკალია (peḳalia) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Georgian: განავალი (ganavali) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • German: Fäkalien — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • German: Kot — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Greek: περιττώματα (perittómata) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Greek: κόπρανα (kóprana) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Greek: σκατά (skatá) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ancient Greek: κοπρία (kopría) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ancient Greek: σκῶρ (skôr) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ancient Greek: μίνθος (mínthos) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ancient Greek: ὄνθος (ónthos) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Gujarati: છી (chī) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Gujarati: ગૂ (gū) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Gujarati: હંગણ (haṅgaṇ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hawaiian: kūkae — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hindi: टट्टी (ṭaṭṭī) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hindi: मल (mal) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hindi: गू (gū) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hindi: गूह (gūh) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hindi: गुह (guh) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hindi: लीद (līd) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hindi: पाखाना (pākhānā) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hindi: विष्ठा (viṣṭhā) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hungarian: széklet — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Hungarian: ürülék — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ido: feko — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ilocano: takki — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Indonesian: tinja — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Indonesian: tai — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Irish: faecas — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Italian: feci — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Italian: escremento — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ivatan: tachi — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Japanese: 糞 (fun) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Japanese: 糞便 (funben) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Japanese: 大便 (daiben) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Japanese: うんこ (unko) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Japanese: うんち (unchi) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Javanese: tai — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Javanese: tinja — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Javanese: ising — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Kaingang: jãfa — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Kapampangan: takla — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Kazakh: нысап (nysap) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Khmer: លាមក (liəmŭək) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Khmer: ឧច្ចារ (ʼuccaaraʼ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Khmer: វច្ច (vaccaʼ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Khmer: គូទ (kuut) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Korean: 분 (bun) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Korean: 대변 (daebyeon) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Korean: 똥 (ttong) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Northern Kurdish: pîsayî — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Northern Kurdish: gû — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Kyrgyz: фекалия (fekaliya) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Lakota: čheslí — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Lao: ອາຈົມ (ʼā chom) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Lao: ອຸດຈາຣະ (ʼut chā ra) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Lao: ຂີ້ (khī) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Latin: stercus — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Lü: ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii2) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Macedonian: измет (izmet) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Macedonian: екскреме́нт (ekskremént) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Malay: tinja — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Malayalam: മലം (malaṁ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Malayalam: തീട്ടം (tīṭṭaṁ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Malayalam: കാട്ടം (kāṭṭaṁ) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Mansaka: tai — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Māori: hamuti — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Māori: roke — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Māori: tūtae — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Māori: tiko — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Māori: hamiti — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Māori: kurakura — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Māori: weta — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Maranao: ta'i — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Classical Nahuatl: cuitlatl — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Navajo: chąąʼ — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Norwegian Bokmål: avføring — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: avføring — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Nǀuu: cxan — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Nǀuu: tyxan — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Nǀuu: cxany — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ojibwe: moo — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Pashto: سوپه (súpa) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Persian: گه (goh) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Persian: ان (an) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Persian: پهن (pehen) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Persian: مدفوع (madfu') — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Persian: براز (borâz) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Plautdietsch: Kak — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Polish: fekalia — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Polish: kał — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Polish: odchody — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Polish: ekskrementy — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Portuguese: fezes — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Portuguese: excremento — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Quechua: aka — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Romanian: fecale — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Russian: испражне́ния (ispražnénija) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Russian: экскреме́нты (ekskreménty) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Russian: кал (kal) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Russian: фека́лии (fekálii) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Samoan: tae — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Sanskrit: गूथ (gūtha) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Savosavo: zugha — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Serbo-Croatian: измет — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Serbo-Croatian: izmet — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Sikkimese: སྐྱག་ཀོ (skyag ko) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Slovak: výkal — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Slovene: iztrebek — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Slovene: blato — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Spanish: heces — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Spanish: feca — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Swahili: mavi — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Swedish: avföring — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Swedish: träck — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tagalog: tae — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tagalog: dumi — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tajik: саргин (sargin) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tajik: наҷосат (najosat) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tamil: ஆய் (āy) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tamil: மலம் (malam) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tamil: கழிவு (kaḻivu) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tamil: பீ (pī) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tausug: tay' — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Thai: อาจม (aa-jom) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Thai: อุจจาระ (ùt-jaa-rá) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Thai: ขี้ (kîi) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Tok Pisin: pekpek — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Turkish: bok — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Turkish: fışkı — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Turkish: dışkı — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Turkish: kaka — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Turkish: pislik — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Turkmen: bok — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ukrainian: фека́лії (fekáliji) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ukrainian: ви́порожнення (výporožnennja) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ukrainian: екскреме́нти (ekskreménty) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Ukrainian: кал (kal) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Urdu: باٹھروم (bāṭhrūm) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Urdu: پا خانہ (pā xānā) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Urdu: پاخانہ (pāxāna) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Uyghur: گەندە (gende) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Uzbek: kal — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Uzbek: axlat — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Uzbek: najas — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Uzbek: tezak — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Vietnamese: cứt — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Vietnamese: phân — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Volapük: jiedot — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Walloon: crotes — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Walloon: caca — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Walloon: stron — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Walloon: flate — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Walloon: polene — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Walloon: crotin — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Walloon: petale — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Walloon: pecale — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Walloon: crotale — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Welsh: ysgarthion — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Woiwurrung: koonong — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Yakut: саах (saaq) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Yiddish: צואה (tsoye) — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Yilan Creole: uci — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Zhuang: haex — digested waste material discharged from the bowels
  • Khiamniungan Naga: vēushīh — chicken feces
  • Khiamniungan Naga: vēushīhlōnglōngnyù — chicken feces
  • Polish: kurze odchody — chicken feces