feces

See also: fèces

English

Alternative forms

• faeces (British)
• fæces (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːsiːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːsiːz

Noun

feces pl (plural only) (Canada, US)

1. Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement.
   • 2011 June 21, Kay E. Holekamp, “Why Study Hyenas?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces.

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 faex is rarely used, in some academic contexts, particularly when the spelling faeces is used for the plural.

Synonyms

• (discharged animal waste): dung, excrement, droppings, faecal matter, caca, spoor
• (discharged domestic animal waste): manure
• (discharged bird or bat waste): guano
• night soil, number two (euphemistic)
• doo, poo, poop, boo-boo, doo-doo, dookie and doody (euphemistic or hypocoristic)
• crap, shit, turd, log (vulgar)
• See also Thesaurus:feces

Derived terms

• paleofeces
• pseudofeces

Related terms

• cecotrope
• defecate
• faecal
• faex
• fecal
• feceate
• feculence
• feculent

Translations

digested waste material discharged from the bowels — see also poo,‎ shit,‎ stool

• Aari: tóoni
• Afrikaans: ontlasting
• Aklanon: tai
• Albanian: jashtëqitje
• Apache:

  Western Apache: bichan

• Arabic: بِرَاز m (birāz), سَلْح m (salḥ), زِبْل (ar) m (zibl) (of animals), رَوْث m (rawṯ) (of animals), بَعْر m (baʕr) (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: خرا m (ḵrā), خروج m (ḵrūj) (polite), كاكا m (kākka) (childish), بزق m (bzaq) (of birds), بريو m (barrīw) (of sheep, camels), روت m (rawt) (of animals)

• Armenian: կղանք (hy) (kġankʻ), կղկղանք (hy) (kġkġankʻ), արտաթորանք (hy) (artatʻorankʻ)
• 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 (ṭaṭṭi)
• Bikol Central: udo (bcl)
• Bulgarian: фека́лии f pl (fekálii), екскреме́нти (bg) m pl (ekskreménti), изпражне́ния (bg) n pl (izpražnénija)
• Burmese: ချေး (my) (hkye:), မစင် (my) (ma.cang), အလေး (my) (a.le:)
• Cebuano: tai
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 屎 (si²), 糞便 / 粪便 (fan³ bin⁶)

  Mandarin: 糞 / 粪 (zh) (fèn), 糞便 / 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
• Eastern Arrernte: please add this translation if you can
• Egyptian: (ḥs)
• 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)

  Ancient: κοπρία f (kopría), σκῶρ n (skôr), (of humans) μίνθος m (mínthos), (of animals) ὄνθος m (ónthos)

• Gujarati: છી (chī), ગૂ n (gū), હંગણ n (haṅgaṇ)
• Hindi: टट्टी (hi) (ṭaṭṭī), मल (hi) m (mal), गू (hi) m (gū), गूह (hi) m (gūh), गुह (hi) m (guh), लीद (hi) f (līd) (of domestic animals), पाखाना (hi) m (pākhānā), विष्ठा (hi) f (viṣṭhā)
• Hungarian: széklet (hu), ürülék (hu)
• Ido: feko (io)
• Ilocano: takki
• Indonesian: tinja (id), (slang) tai (id)
• Italian: feci (it) f pl
• Ivatan: tachi
• Japanese: 糞 (ja) (ふん, fun), 糞便 (ja) (ふんべん, funben), 大便 (ja) (だいべん, daiben), うんこ (ja) (unko), うんち (ja) (unchi)
• Javanese: tai (jv), tinja, ising
• Kaingang: jãfa
• Kapampangan: takla
• Kazakh: нысап (nysap)
• Khmer: លាមក (km) (liəmŭək), ឧច្ចារ (km) (ʼuccaaraʼ), វច្ច (km) (vaccaʼ), គូទ (km) (kuut)
• Korean: 분(糞) (ko) (bun), 대변(大便) (ko) (daebyeon), 똥 (ko) (ttong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pîsayî (ku) f, gû (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: фекалия (ky) (fekaliya)
• Lakota: čheslí
• Lao: ອາຈົມ (ʼā chom), ອຸດຈາຣະ (ʼut chā ra), ຂີ້ (lo) (khī)
• Latin: faeces
• Lü: ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii²)
• Macedonian: измет m (izmet), екскреме́нт m (ekskremént)
• Malay: tinja (ms)
• Malayalam: മലം (ml) (malaṁ), തീട്ടം (ml) (tīṭṭaṁ), കാട്ടം (ml) (kāṭṭaṁ) (animal faeces)
• Mansaka: tai
• Maori: hamuti, roke, tūtae, tiko, hamiti, kurakura, weta
• Maranao: ta'i
• Navajo: chąąʼ
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avføring (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: avføring f

• Ojibwe: moo
• Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok)
• Pashto: سوپه f (súpa)
• Persian: گه (fa) (goh), ان (fa) (an), پهن (fa) (pehen), مدفوع (fa) (madfu'), براز (fa) (borâz)
• Pitjantjatjara: please add this translation if you can
• Plautdietsch: Kak n
• Polish: kał (pl) m, odchody (pl) m inan pl
• 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
• Sanskrit: गूथ (sa) m (gūtha)
• 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, feca (es) f (Chile)
• Swahili: mavi (sw) class 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)
• Tok Pisin: pekpek
• 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 (bāṭhrūm), پا خانہ (pā xānā), پاخانہ m (pāxāna)
• 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 or small ruminants), crotale (of rabbits or small ruminants)
• Warlpiri: please add this translation if you can
• Yakut: саах (saaq)
• Yiddish: צואה f (tsoye)
• Zhuang: haex

chicken feces — see also poo,‎ shit,‎ stool

• Khiamniungan Naga: vēushīh, vēushīhlōnglōngnyù

Latin

Noun

fēcēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fēx

Spanish

Noun

feces m pl

1. plural of fez