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Austrian army beret

• béret
• berret (archaic)

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɹeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹeɪ
• (General American) IPA(key): /bəˈɹeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
• (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɹɪt/[1]

beret (plural berets)

1. (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

• bereted
• beretlike
• blue beret
• Green Beret

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, bereto (eo)
• 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

1. ^ Thorson, Per (1951), “English Long Vowels Rendering Foreign Short. A Distinctive Class of Sound Substitutions”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology‎[1], volume 50, number 1, University of Illinois Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80.

• Ebert, B-tree, Berte

bëret

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

bërēt

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of bëran

Borrowed from French béret.

• IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.rɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛrɛt
• Syllabification: be‧ret

beret m inan (diminutive berecik)

1. beret (headwear)

• moherowy beret

• mieć zryty beret impf

• zrywać beret impf, zerwać beret pf

• “beret”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

• “beret”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)

beret n (plural berete)

1. alternative form of beretă