beret

See also: béret

English

Austrian army beret

Alternative forms

• berret (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed 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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹ.eɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈɹeɪ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɹeɪ, -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.

   Hyponym: caubeen

Derived terms

• blue beret
• Green Beret

Translations

type of brimless cap

• Afrikaans: baret
• 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: beret, baret, alpehue
• 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)
• Italian: basco (it)
• Japanese: ベレー帽 (berē bō)
• Korean: 베레모 (beremo), 베레 (bere)
• 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

Anagrams

• B-tree, Ebert

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Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.rɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrɛt
• Syllabification: be‧ret

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

noun

• moherowy beret

 

verbs

• mieć zryty beret impf
• zrywać beret impf, zerwać beret pf

 

Further reading

• beret in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• beret in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Noun

beret n (plural berete)

1. Alternative form of beretă

Declension

Declension of beret

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) beret	beretul	(niște) berete	beretele
genitive/dative	(unui) beret	beretului	(unor) berete	beretelor
vocative	beretule		beretelor