excrement

See also: excrément

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛkskɹəmənt/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excernō (“I excrete”).

Noun

excrement (countable and uncountable, plural excrements)

(now specifically) Human and animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
(archaic) Any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.97:
  A French Gentleman was ever wont to blow his nose in his hand […]. He asked me on a time, what privilege this filthie excrement had, that wee should have a daintie linnen cloth or handkercher to receive the same.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:feces

Related terms

Translations

human and animal solid waste

Arabic: غَائِط‎‎ m (ḡāʾiṭ), بِرَاز‎‎ m (birāz), خَرَاء‎‎ m (ḵarāʾ), خِرَاء‎‎ m (ḵirāʾ)
Armenian: կղկղանք (hy) (kłkłankʿ)
Azerbaijani: nəcis
Belarusian: спаражне́ння n pl (sparažnjénnja), экскрыме́нты m pl (ekskrymjénty), кал m (kal), фека́ліі f pl (fjekálii)
Bulgarian: изпражне́ние n (izpražnénie), фека́лии f pl (fekálii), екскреме́нти (bg) m pl (ekskreménti)
Burmese: မစင် (my) (ma.cang), ချေး (hkye:), အညစ်အကြေး (my) (a.nyaca.kre:)
Catalan: femta f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 屎 (si²)

Mandarin: 大便 (zh) (dàbiàn), 屎 (zh) (shǐ), 糞 (zh), 粪 (zh) (fèn)
Czech: výkal (cs) m, stolice (cs) f
Dutch: uitwerpselen (nl) n pl
Esperanto: feko (eo), ekskremento
Fijian: dā
Finnish: (animal excrement) lanta (fi), (human excrement) uloste (fi)
French: excrément (fr) m
Galician: excremento (gl) m
Gamilaraay: guna
Georgian: ექსკრემენტები (eksḳremenṭebi), ფეკალია (peḳalia), განავალი (ganavali)
German: Ausscheidungen (de) f pl, Kot (de) m
Greek: περίττωμα (el) n (períttoma)
Ancient: σκῶρ n (skôr)
Hawaiian: kūkae
Hungarian: ürülék (hu)
Ido: exkremento (io)
Indonesian: tahi (id)
Italian: escremento (it) m
Japanese: 便 (ja) (ben), 大便 (ja) (daiben), うんこ (ja) (unko), うんち (ja) (unchi), 糞 (ja) (ふん, fun;くそ, kuso)
Khmer: គូទ (km) (kuut), វច្ច (km) (vɑccaʾ)
Korean: 똥 (ko) (ttong), (human euphemism) 뒤 (ko) (dwi), 대변 (ko) (daebyeon)

Latin: ēgeriēs f, stercus m
Lü: ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii²)
Macedonian: и́змет m (ízmet), екскреме́нт m (ekskremént)
Maori: tūtae, hamuti, paru, paranga, karaweta, paraweta
Mongolian: баас (mn) (baas)
Navajo: chąąʼ
Ngarrindjeri: kunar
Norwegian:
Bokmål: avføring (no) m, f

Nynorsk: avføring f
Pitjantjatjara: kuna
Polish: kał (pl) m, ekskrementy m pl, odchody (pl) m pl
Portuguese: excremento (pt) m, fezes (pt) f pl
Quechua: q'awa
Romanian: excrement (ro) n pl, materii fecale, fecale
Russian: кал (ru) m (kal), экскреме́нты (ru) m pl (ekskreménty), испражне́ния (ru) n pl (ispražnénija), фека́лии (ru) f pl (fekálii)
Samoan: tae
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: екскремент m, измет m

Roman: ekskrement (sh) m, izmet (sh) m, izmetine (sh) f pl
Slovak: výkal m
Slovene: blato (sl) n, iztrebek m, izloček m
Spanish: excremento (es) m
Thai: อาจม (aa-jom), อุจจาระ (th) (ùt-jaa-rá), ขี้ (th) (kîi)
Turkish: dışkı (tr)
Ukrainian: ви́порожнення n (výporožnennja), екскреме́нти m pl (ekskreménty), кал m (kal), фека́лії f pl (fekáliji)
Uzbek: najas (uz), axlat (uz)
Vietnamese: cặn (vi), chất lắng
Warlpiri: kuna
Zhuang: haex

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excrēscō (“I grow out”).

Noun

excrement (plural excrements)

(obsolete) Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails etc.

Latin

Verb

excrement

third-person plural present active subjunctive of excremō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French excrément, Latin excrementum.

Noun

excrement n (plural excremente)

excrement, feces

Synonyms

fecale
(popular) scârnă, scremet
(slang) rahat
(vulgar) căcat
(animals) baligă

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