excrement

See also: excrément

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkskɹəmənt/

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

excrement (countable and uncountable, plural excrements)

1. (now specifically) Human and non-human animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 71:

     The Roman poet Horace states that the excrement of the crocodile has aphrodisiac virtues.

2. (archaic) Any waste matter excreted from the human or non-human animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.

   Synonyms: excretion, excretum

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , 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

Derived terms

• excrementive
• excrementize
• Mexcrement

Related terms

• excreta
• excrete
• excremental
• excrementitious

Translations

human and animal solid waste — see also feces,‎ defecation,‎ shit,‎ poop,‎ number two

• Abkhaz: адәынца́ра (adʷəncára)
• Arabic: غَائِط m (ḡāʔiṭ), بِرَاز m (birāz), خَرَاء m (ḵarāʔ), خِرَاء m (ḵirāʔ)
• Armenian: կղկղանք (hy) (kġkġankʻ)
• Arrernte:

  Eastern Arrernte: please add this translation if you can

• Azerbaijani: nəcis
• Balinese: tai
• Belarusian: спаражне́ння n pl (sparažnjénnja), экскрыме́нты m pl (ekskrymjénty), кал m (kal), фека́ліі f pl (fjekálii)
• Bulgarian: изпражне́ние (bg) n (izpražnénie), фека́лии f pl (fekálii), екскреме́нти (bg) m pl (ekskreménti)
• Burmese: မစင် (my) (ma.cang), ချေး (my) (hkye:), အညစ်အကြေး (my) (a.nyaca.kre:)
• Catalan: femta (ca) f
• Chin:

  Tedim Chin: eek

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 屎 (si²)

  Dungan: дафын (dafɨn), сы (sɨ)

  Mandarin: 大便 (zh) (dàbiàn), 屎 (zh) (shǐ), 糞 / 粪 (zh) (fèn)

• Czech: výkal (cs) m, stolice (cs) f
• Danish: ekskrement (da) n, afføring (da) c
• Dutch: uitwerpselen (nl) n pl
• Egyptian: (ḥs)
• 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 Greek: κοπρία f (kopría), σκῶρ n (skôr), (of humans) μίνθος m (mínthos), (of animals) ὄνθος m (ónthos)

• Gujarati: ગૂ n (gū), હગાર f (hagār) (of birds), હંગણ n (haṅgaṇ), છી (chī)
• Hawaiian: kūkae
• Higaonon: ta-i
• Hindi: टट्टी (hi) (ṭaṭṭī), मल (hi) m (mal), गू (hi) m (gū), गूह (hi) m (gūh), गुह (hi) m (guh), गोबर (hi) m (gobar), पाखाना (hi) m (pākhānā), विष्ठा (hi) f (viṣṭhā)
• Hittite: 𒊭𒀝𒋼𒀀 (ša-ak-kar)
• 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)
• Javanese: tai (jv)
• Khmer: គូទ (km) (kuut), វច្ច (km) (vaccaʼ), ឧច្ចារ (km) (ʼuccaaraʼ), លាមក (km) (liəmŭək)
• Korean: 똥 (ko) (ttong), (human euphemism) 뒤 (ko) (dwi), 대변 (ko) (daebyeon)
• Lao: ອາຈົມ (ʼā chom), ອຸດຈາຣະ (ʼut chā ra), ຂີ້ (lo) (khī)
• Latin: fimum (la) n, ēgeriēs f, stercus (la) m, excrementum (la), merda (la) (vulgar)
• Lü: ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii²)
• Macedonian: и́змет m (ízmet), екскреме́нт m (ekskremént)
• Malay: air besar (ms), tahi (ms), tinja (ms)
• Malayalam: മലം (ml) (malaṁ), തീട്ടം (ml) (tīṭṭaṁ), കാട്ടം (ml) (kāṭṭaṁ) (non-human animals)
• Māori: tae, tūtae, hamuti, paru, paranga, weta, karaweta, paraweta
• Mokilese: pwije
• Mongolian: баас (mn) (baas), шээс (mn) (šees)
• Navajo: chąąʼ
• Ngarrindjeri: kunar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avføring (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: avføring f

• Nǀuu: tyxan, cxan
• Ojibwe: moo
• Old East Slavic: говьно n (govĭno) (vulgar in descendants)
• Oromo: udaan
• Pitjantjatjara: kuna
• Plautdietsch: Kak n
• Polish: fekalia (pl) nvir pl, kał (pl) m, odchody (pl) nvir pl, ekskrementy nvir pl
• Portuguese: excremento (pt) m, fezes (pt) f pl
• Quechua: q'awa, aka (qu)
• Romagnol: càca f
• 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
• Sanskrit: गूथ (sa) m (gūtha)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: екскремент m, измет m

  Latin: 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
• Swedish: avföring (sv) c
• Tausug: tai
• Tetum: teen
• Thai: อาจม (aa-jom), อุจจาระ (th) (ùt-jaa-rá), ขี้ (th) (kîi)
• Tocharian B: weṃts
• Turkish: dışkı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok)

• Ukrainian: ви́порожнення n (výporožnennja), екскреме́нти m pl (ekskreménty), кал m (kal), фека́лії f pl (fekáliji)
• Urdu: گو (gu), گوہ (guh)
• Uzbek: najas (uz), axlat (uz)
• Vietnamese: phân (vi), cứt (vi)
• Warlpiri: kuna
• Woiwurrung: koonong
• Zande: mire
• Zazaki: gi (diq) n
• Zhuang: haex

any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body

• Finnish: erite (fi)
• Polish: ekskrementy nvir pl
• Ukrainian: екскреме́нти m pl (ekskreménty)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

excrement (plural excrements)

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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [əks.kɾəˈme̞n]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əks.kɾəˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [əks.kɾəˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eks.kɾeˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [eks.kɾeˈmen]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

excrement m (plural excrements)

1. (also in the plural) excrement

Derived terms

• excremental
• excrementar
• excrementici
• excrementós

Further reading

• “excrement”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “excrement”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “excrement” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “excrement”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Latin

Verb

excrement

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of excremō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French excrément, Latin excrementum.

Noun

excrement n (plural excremente)

1. excrement, feces

   Synonyms: fecale; (slang) rahat; (vulgar) căcat; (of animals) baligă

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	excrement	excrementul	excremente	excrementele
genitive-dative	excrement	excrementului	excremente	excrementelor
vocative	excrementule		excrementelor

Synonyms

• (popular) scârnă, scremet