beret

See also: béret

English

Austrian army beret

Alternative forms

• béret
• 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): /ˈbɛɹeɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈɹeɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹeɪ, -eɪ

Noun

beret (plural berets)

2. (clothing) 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

• bereted
• beretlike
• 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)
• Catalan: boina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝雷帽 / 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: Barett (de) n, (Pyrenean style) Baskenmütze (de) f, (sailor cap) Tellermütze f
• Greek: μπερές (el) m (berés)
• Hebrew: כומתה (he) f (kumta)
• Hungarian: svájcisapka (hu), baszk sapka
• Icelandic: alpahúfa (is) f
• Ido: beredo (io)
• Irish: beiré m
• Italian: basco (it)
• Japanese: ベレー帽 (berē bō), ベレー (berē)
• Korean: 베레모 (beremo), 베레 (bere)
• Latvian: berete f
• Lithuanian: beretė
• Macedonian: баретка f (baretka)
• 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)
• Swahili: bereti
• Swedish: basker (sv) c
• Turkish: bere (tr)
• Ukrainian: бере́т (uk) m (berét)
• Venetan: basco (vec) m
• Vietnamese: mũ nồi (vi)
• Welsh: beret (cy) m

Anagrams

• Ebert, B-tree, Berte

Old High German

Etymology 1

Verb

bëret

1. second-person plural present indicative/imperative of bëran

Etymology 2

Verb

bërēt

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of bëran

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French béret.

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

nouns

• 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

Romanian

Noun

beret n (plural berete)

1. alternative form of beretă

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	beret	beretul		berete	beretele
genitive-dative	beret	beretului		berete	beretelor
vocative	beretule			beretelor