beret

See also béret

English

Austrian army beret

Etymology

From French béret, from Occitan (Gascon) berret (“cap”), from Medieval Latin birretum, from Late Latin birrus (“large hooded cloak”), from Gaulish berros 'short, clipped' (compare Welsh byrr, Middle Irish berr). Compare biretta.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbeɹ.eɪ/, X-SAMPA: /"ber.eI/
• (US) IPA: /bəˈɹeɪ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛreɪ, -eɪ

Noun

beret (plural berets)

1. A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.

Derived terms

• Green Beret

Hyponyms

• caubeen

Translations

type of brimless cap

• Albanian: beretë (sq) f
• Basque: txapel (eu)
• Bulgarian: барета (bg) (bareta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝雷帽 (cmn), 贝雷帽 (cmn) (bèiléimào)

• Czech: baret (cs) m
• Dutch: baret (nl) f
• Esperanto: bireto (eo)
• Finnish: baretti (fi)
• French: béret (fr) m
• German: Baskenmütze (de) f
• Hebrew: כומתה (kumta) f
• Hungarian: svájcisapka, baszk sapka
• Icelandic: alpahúfa (is) f

• Ido: beredo (io)
• Interlingue: berete (ie)
• Italian: basco (it)
• Japanese: ベレー帽 (ja) (berē bō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alpelue (nb) m and f, beret (nb) m

• Polish: beret (pl) m
• Portuguese: boina (pt) f
• Romanian: beretă (ro) f
• Russian: берет (ru) (berét) m 
• Spanish: boina (es)
• Swedish: basker (sv) c
• Turkish: bere (tr)

See also

• Beret on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• B-tree

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Polish

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɛrɛt/

• audio

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Noun

beret m

1. beret (headgear)

Declension

    declension of beret

	singular	plural
nominative	beret	berety
genitive	beretu	beretów
dative	beretowi	beretom
accusative	beret	berety
instrumental	beretem	beretami
locative	berecie	beretach
vocative	berecie	berety