name
Meaning 1
A city in Morocco.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fez
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/fɛz/
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rhymes with -ɛz
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /fɛz/
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noun
Meaning 2
A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tarboosh
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tarboosh
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cap
noun
Meaning 4
a city in north central Morocco; religious center
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Fes
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center
History
Etymology
From Arabic فَاس (fās).
From Ottoman Turkish فس (fes) (modern Turkish fes), named after Fez, Morocco, (capital of the Kingdom of Morocco until 1927), where the dye to color the hat was extracted from crimson berries.
Across languages
Translations
85 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: فَاس (fās) — city in Morocco
- Bengali: ফাস (phaś) — city in Morocco
- Bulgarian: Фес (Fes) — city in Morocco
- Catalan: Fes — city in Morocco
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴼⴰⵙ (fas) — city in Morocco
- Chinese Mandarin: 非斯 (Fēisī) — city in Morocco
- Danish: Fez — city in Morocco
- Dutch: Fez — city in Morocco
- Finnish: Fès — city in Morocco
- French: Fès — city in Morocco
- French: Fez — city in Morocco
- German: Fès — city in Morocco
- Greek: Φεζ (Fez) — city in Morocco
- Hebrew: פס (fes) — city in Morocco
- Hindi: फ़ास (fās) — city in Morocco
- Indonesian: Fez — city in Morocco
- Italian: Fès — city in Morocco
- Italian: Fez — city in Morocco
- Japanese: フェズ (Fezu) — city in Morocco
- Macedonian: Фес (Fes) — city in Morocco
- Macedonian: Фез (Fez) — city in Morocco
- Marathi: फेज (phej) — city in Morocco
- Persian: فاس (fâs) — city in Morocco
- Polish: Fez — city in Morocco
- Polish: Fes — city in Morocco
- Portuguese: Fez — city in Morocco
- Romanian: Fes — city in Morocco
- Russian: Фес (Fes) — city in Morocco
- Russian: Фез (Fez) — city in Morocco
- Serbo-Croatian: Фес — city in Morocco
- Serbo-Croatian: Fes — city in Morocco
- Spanish: Fez — city in Morocco
- Swedish: Fez — city in Morocco
- Swedish: Fes — city in Morocco
- Tajik: Фос (Fos) — city in Morocco
- Turkish: Fes — city in Morocco
- Urdu: فاس (fās) — city in Morocco
- Arabic: طَرْبُوش (ṭarbūš) — type of hat
- Arabic: طربوش (ṭarbūš) — type of hat
- Arabic: طَرْبُوش (ṭarbūš) — type of hat
- Azerbaijani: fəs — type of hat
- Bashkir: фәс (fəs) — type of hat
- Bulgarian: фес (fes) — type of hat
- Catalan: fes — type of hat
- Chechen: пес (pes) — type of hat
- Dutch: fez — type of hat
- Esperanto: fezo — type of hat
- Finnish: fetsi — type of hat
- French: fez — type of hat
- French: tarbouche — type of hat
- Galician: fez — type of hat
- German: Fes — type of hat
- German: Tarbusch — type of hat
- Greek: φέσι (fési) — type of hat
- Hebrew: תרבוש — type of hat
- Indonesian: fez — type of hat
- Ingush: пес (pes) — type of hat
- Italian: fez — type of hat
- Italian: tarbuscio — type of hat
- Japanese: フェズ (fezu) — type of hat
- Kazakh: пәс (päs) — type of hat
- Korean: 페즈 (pejeu) — type of hat
- Kumyk: пес (pes) — type of hat
- Lezgi: фес (fes) — type of hat
- Malay: tarbus — type of hat
- Marathi: फेज (phej) — type of hat
- Persian: فینه (fine) — type of hat
- Polish: fez — type of hat
- Polish: tarbusz — type of hat
- Portuguese: fez — type of hat
- Portuguese: tarbuche — type of hat
- Romanian: fes — type of hat
- Russian: фе́ска (féska) — type of hat
- Russian: фес (fes) — type of hat
- Russian: тарбу́ш (tarbúš) — type of hat
- Spanish: fez — type of hat
- Swahili: tarbushi — type of hat
- Swedish: fez — type of hat
- Tagalog: pes — type of hat
- Tatar: фәс (fäs) — type of hat
- Turkish: fes — type of hat
- Ukrainian: фе́ска (féska) — type of hat
- Uyghur: فەس (fes) — type of hat
- Volapük: fäid — type of hat
- Volapük: kapitegot Türkänik — type of hat