beret

See also: béret

English

Austrian army beret

Etymology

From French béret, from Occitan (Gascon) berret (“cap”), from Old Occitan berret, from Medieval Latin birretum, from Late Latin birrus (“large hooded cloak”), from Gaulish birrus (“short cloak”), from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”) (compare Welsh byr, Middle Irish berr). Compare biretta.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹ.eɪ/, /ˈbeɹ.eɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /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.

Hyponyms

• caubeen

Derived terms

• Green Beret

Translations

type of brimless cap

• Albanian: beretë (sq) f
• Armenian: բերետ (hy) (beret)
• Basque: txapel
• Bulgarian: барета (bg) (bareta)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: baret (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: baret (nl) f
• Esperanto: bireto
• Estonian: barett
• Finnish: baretti (fi)
• French: béret (fr) m
• German: Baskenmütze (de) f, Tellermütze f, Barett (de) n
• Greek: μπερές (el) m (berés)
• Hebrew: כומתה‎ (he) f (kumta)
• Hungarian: svájcisapka (hu), baszk sapka
• Icelandic: alpahúfa (is) f

• Ido: beredo (io)
• Interlingue: berete
• Italian: basco (it)
• Japanese: ベレー帽 (berē bō)
• Korean: 베레모 (beremo)
• Latvian: berete f
• Lithuanian: beretė
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alpelue (no) m or f, beret m

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

See also

• beret on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• B-tree, Ebert

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Polish

Etymology

From French béret, from Occitan berret (“cap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.rɛt/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

beret m inan (diminutive berecik)

1. beret (headwear)

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

Derived terms

• jaja jak berety
• moherowy beret

Further reading

• beret in Polish dictionaries at PWN