# feces
## 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: /ˈfiːsiːz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːsiːz

### Noun

feces pl (plural only) (Canada, US)
* 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: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

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 (si$^2$), 糞便 / 粪便 (fan$^3$ bin$^6$)
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 :

### References

* ↑ “feces”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* ↑ “feces” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

## Latin
### Noun

fēcēs
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fēx

## Spanish
### Noun

feces m pl
* plural of fez