fez

See also: Fez and fêz

English

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فس (fes) (modern Turkish fes), named after Fez, Morocco, (capital of the Kingdom of Morocco until 1927), where the dye to colour the hat was extracted from crimson berries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛz/

• Audio (Berkshire, UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɛz

Noun

fez (plural fezzes or fezes)

1. A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached.

   Synonym: tarboosh

Derived terms

• befezzed

Translations

type of hat

• Arabic: طَرْبُوش m (ṭarbūš)

  Egyptian Arabic: طربوش m (ṭarbūš)

  Hijazi Arabic: طَرْبُوش m (ṭarbūš)

• Azerbaijani: fəs
• Bashkir: фәс (fəs)
• Bulgarian: фес (bg) m (fes)
• Catalan: fes (ca) m
• Chechen: пес (pes)
• Dutch: fez (nl) m
• Esperanto: fezo
• Finnish: fetsi (fi)
• French: fez (fr) m, tarbouche (fr) m
• Galician: fez m
• German: Fes (de) m, Tarbusch (de) m
• Greek: φέσι (el) n (fési)
• Hebrew: תרבוש m
• Indonesian: fez
• Ingush: пес (pes)
• Italian: tarbuscio m
• Japanese: フェズ (fezu)
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• Kazakh: пәс (päs)
• Korean: 페즈 (pejeu)
• Kumyk: пес (pes)
• Lezgi: фес (fes)
• Malay: tarbus (ms)
• Marathi: फेज (mr) f (phej)
• Persian: فینه (fa) (fine)
• Polish: fez (pl) m, tarbusz m
• Portuguese: fez (pt) m, tarbuche m
• Romanian: fes (ro) n
• Russian: фе́ска (ru) f (féska), фес (ru) m (fes), тарбуш m (tarbuš)
• Swahili: tarbushi class 9/10
• Swedish: fez (sv) c
• Tagalog: pes (tl)
• Tatar: фәс (fäs)
• Turkish: fes (tr)
• Uyghur: فەس (fes)
• Volapük: fäid, kapitegot Türkänik

Further reading

• Fez on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• zef

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

1. fez

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

fez m (plural fezzen, diminutive fezje n)

1. fez

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French

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فس (fes). Mentioned as bonnet de fez in 1664. By the 19th century the word fez alone stood for the hat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛz/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

fez m (plural fez)

1. fez

   Synonym: tarbouche

Further reading

• “fez”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• fêz (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfe(j)s/ [ˈfe(ɪ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfe(j)s/ [ˈfe(ɪ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfe(j)ʃ/ [ˈfe(ɪ̯)ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfeʃ/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -eʃ
• Hyphenation: fez

Verb

fez

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

Etymology 2

From Latin faex, faecem (“dregs”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ(j)s/ [ˈfɛ(ɪ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ(j)s/ [ˈfɛ(ɪ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ(j)ʃ/ [ˈfɛ(ɪ̯)ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛʃ/

• Homophone: fés
• Hyphenation: fez

Noun

fez f (plural fezes)

1. (rare) a piece of faeces

   Synonyms: (vulgar) bosta, excremento, merda, (vulgar) [Term?]

Related terms

• fecal

Further reading

• “fez”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “fez”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “fez”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “fez”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “fez”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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Spanish

Etymology

From French, from Ottoman Turkish فس (fes).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈfeθ/ [ˈfeθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈfes/ [ˈfes]

Noun

fez m (plural feces)

1. fez (hat)

Further reading

• “fez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014