fabric

English

Alternative forms

• fabrick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of forge, borrowed from Old French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæb.ɹɪk/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)

1. (now rare) An edifice or building.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:

     Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.

   • |title=The Romance of the Forest|publisher=Oxford 1999|p=86|text=They withdrew from the gate, as if to depart, but he presently thought he heard them amongst the trees on the other side of the fabric, and soon became convinced that they had not left the abbey.}}
2. (archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity‎^[1]:

     Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.

3. (archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.

   cloth of a beautiful fabric

4. The framework underlying a structure.

   the fabric of our lives

   the fabric of the universe

5. A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

   cotton fabric

6. The texture of a cloth.
7. (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
8. (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

   The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fabric

Descendants

• → Irish: fabraic

Translations

edifice, building

• Bulgarian: зда́ние (bg) n (zdánie), постро́йка (bg) f (postrójka)
• Finnish: rakenne (fi), rakennus (fi)
• French: structure (fr)
• Galician: estructura (gl) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: δομή (el) f (domí)
• Italian: struttura (it) f, fabbricato (it) m
• Romanian: structură (ro) f
• Russian: структу́ра (ru) f (struktúra), зда́ние (ru) n (zdánije), постро́йка (ru) f (postrójka)

act of constructing

• Bulgarian: строеж (bg) m (stroež)
• Finnish: rakentaminen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: строи́тельство (ru) n (stroítelʹstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèanamh m

structure of anything

• Finnish: rakenne (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

framework underlying a structure

• Bulgarian: структу́ра (bg) f (struktúra)
• Danish: struktur (da) c, system (da) n
• Dutch: weefsel (nl) n
• Finnish: rakenne (fi), kehikko (fi), kudos (fi)
• German: Bau (de) m, Rohbau (de) m, Struktur (de) f
• Greek: δομή (el) f (domí), διάρθρωση (el) f (diárthrosi), ιστός (el) m (istós), πλέγμα (el) n (plégma)
• Hebrew: מבנה (he) m (mivné), יסוד (he) m (yesód)
• Hungarian: szövevény (hu), szerkezet (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: struttura (it) f, tessuto (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: byggesten m, struktur (no) m

• Polish: struktura (pl) f
• Portuguese: estrutura (pt) f, rede (pt) f
• Russian: структу́ра (ru) f (struktúra)

material made of fibers

• Albanian: pëlhurë (sq) f
• Arabic: قُمَاش (ar) m (qumāš)
• Armenian: կտոր (hy) (ktor), գործվածք (hy) (gorcvackʻ)
• Azerbaijani: parça (az), qumaş, material
• Bashkir: туҡыма (tuqıma)
• Belarusian: ткані́на f (tkanína)
• Bengali: বুনন (bunon)
• Bulgarian: плат (bg) m (plat), тъка́н (bg) f (tǎkán)
• Burmese: ထည် (my) (htany)
• Catalan: tela (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎠᏄᏬ (anuwo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 織物／织物 (zh) (zhīwù), 织物 (zh) (zhīwù)

• Czech: tkanina (cs) f
• Danish: stof (da) n
• Dutch: stof (nl) f, weefsel (nl) n
• Estonian: riie, kangas
• Finnish: kangas (fi), tekstiili (fi)
• French: tissu (fr) m, textile (fr) m
• Galician: tea f, tecido m, téximo m, estofo m
• Georgian: ქსოვილი (ksovili)
• German: Gewebe (de) n, Textil (de) n, Stoff (de) n
• Greek: ύφασμα (el) n (ýfasma)

  Ancient: ὕφασμα n (húphasma)

• Hebrew: בַּד (he) m (bad)
• Hindi: कपड़ा (hi) m (kapṛā)
• Hungarian: textil (hu), szövet (hu), anyag (hu), kelme (hu)
• Icelandic: efni (is) n
• Irish: fabraic f
• Italian: tessuto (it) m
• Japanese: 織物 (ja) (おりもの, orimono)
• Kazakh: мата (kk) (mata), материя (materiä), материал (kk) (material)
• Khmer: ក្រណាត់ (krɑnat)
• Korean: 직물 (ko) (jingmul), 옷감 (ko) (otgam)
• Kyrgyz: кездеме (ky) m (kezdeme), маңыз (ky) m (maŋız), мазмун (ky) m (mazmun), материя (materiya), материал (ky) (material)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: ຜ້າ (phā)
• Latin: textum
• Latvian: audekls m
• Lithuanian: medžiaga (lt) f
• Macedonian: ткаенина f (tkaenina)
• Mongolian: бөс (mn) (bös), даавуу (mn) (daavuu)
• Nanai: босо (boso)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tøy (no) n, stoff (no) n

• Occitan: teissut (oc), tela (oc)
• Persian: پارچه (fa) (pârče), قماش (fa) (qumâš)
• Plautdietsch: Zeich n
• Polish: materiał (pl) m, tkanina (pl) f
• Portuguese: pano (pt) m, tecido (pt) m
• Romanian: țesătură (ro) f, material țesut n, textile (ro) n pl
• Russian: ткань (ru) f (tkanʹ), материа́л (ru) m (materiál), мате́рия (ru) f (matérija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тканина f, материјал m, штоф m

  Roman: tkanina (sh) f, materijal (sh) m, štof (sh) m

• Slovak: tkanina f
• Slovene: tkanina (sl) f, blago n
• Southern Altai: бӧс (bös)
• Spanish: tela (es) f, tejido (es) m, género (es) m
• Swedish: tyg (sv) n
• Tagalog: tela (tl)
• Tajik: порча (porča), матоъ (tg) (matoʾ), газвор (gazvor), қумош (qumoš)
• Tatar: тукыма (tt) (tuqıma)
• Thai: ผ้า (th) (pâa)
• Turkish: kumaş (tr)
• Turkmen: mata, materiýa
• Ukrainian: ткани́на (uk) f (tkanýna)
• Urdu: کپڑا m (kapṛā)
• Uzbek: gazlama (uz), gazmol (uz), mato (uz), materiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: vải (vi)
• Welsh: ffabrig (cy) m
• Yiddish: שטאָף (shtof)
• Zazaki: qumas, parçe (diq)

texture of a cloth

• Bulgarian: материя (bg) f (materija)
• Danish: struktur (da) c, sammensætning c
• Dutch: textuur (nl)
• Finnish: kudos (fi)
• Galician: tecedura (gl) f
• German: Fasern (de) n, Struktur (de) f
• Greek: υφή (el) f (yfí)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: מרקם (he) m (mirkám)
• Hungarian: szövés (hu), anyagszerkezet
• Italian: tessuto (it) m
• Polish: tekstura f, faktura (pl) f, struktura (pl) f
• Portuguese: tato (pt) m, tecido (pt)
• Russian: мате́рия (ru) f (matérija)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèanamh m

petrology: appearance of crystalline grains in a rock

• Finnish: rakeisuus (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

computing: interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed

• Finnish: verkko (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Basque: ^{(please verify)} ehun (eu)
• French: ^{(please verify)} tissu (fr)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} tekstil
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} tkanina, ^{(please verify)} látka
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} tejido (es)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} tyg (sv), ^{(please verify)} väv (sv), ^{(please verify)} system (sv), ^{(please verify)} konstruktion (sv)

See also

• Appendix:Fabrics

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfabrik]

Verb

fabric

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fabrica