chauffeur

See also: Chauffeur

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French chauffeur.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɒˈfɜː/, /ˈʃəʊfə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃoʊˈfɝ/, /ˈʃoʊfɚ/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

NounEdit

chauffeur (plural chauffeurs)

1. A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.

2. (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.

Usage notesEdit

As the French word chauffeur has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.

HypernymsEdit

• (both senses): driver

Derived termsEdit

• chauffeuress
• chauffeurless
• chauffeurship

TranslationsEdit

a person employed to drive a motor car

• Albanian: shofer (sq) m
• Arabic: سائِق‎‎ m (sāʾiq)

  Hijazi Arabic: سَوَّاق‎‎ m (sawwāg)

• Armenian: ավտովարորդ (hy) (avtovarord)
• Azerbaijani: sürücü (az), şofer
• Belarusian: шафёр m (šafjór), кіро́ўца m (kiróŭca), вадзі́цель m (vadzícjelʹ)
• Bulgarian: шофьо́р (bg) m (šofjór)
• Catalan: xofer (ca) m, xòfer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 司機 (zh), 司机 (zh) (sījī)

• Czech: šofér (cs) m, řidič (cs) m
• Esperanto: ŝoforo
• Estonian: autojuht
• Faroese: bilstjóri m, bilførari m, sjaførur m (colloquial)
• Finnish: autonkuljettaja (fi), kuljettaja (fi)
• French: chauffeur (fr) m, chauffeuse (fr) f
• Georgian: მძღოლი (mʒɣoli)
• German: Chauffeur (de) m, Chauffeurin (de) f, Berufschauffeur m, Berufschauffeurin f, (Swiss German) Chauffeuse (de) f, Schofför (de) m, Schofförin f
• Hungarian: sofőr (hu)
• Iban: deriba
• Icelandic: bílstjóri m, einkabílstjóri m
• Ido: motoristo
• Indonesian: supir (id), sopir (id)
• Interlingue: chofero
• Italian: chauffeur (it), autista (it)
• Japanese: 運転手 (ja) (うんてんしゅ, untenshu)

• Korean: 운전사 (ko) (unjeonsa)
• Latvian: vadītājs (lv) m, šoferis m
• Lithuanian: vairuotojas m, šoferis m
• Lombard: çofœr, autista
• Macedonian: шо́фер m (šófer), во́зач m (vózač)
• Malay: pemandu, drebar, supir
• Maltese: xufier m, xufiera f
• Occitan: chòfer, chofer
• Persian: شوفر‎‎ (fa) (šofer)
• Polish: szofer (pl) m
• Portuguese: motorista (pt) m, f, chofer (pt)
• Romanian: șofer (ro) m
• Russian: шофёр (ru) m (šofjór), персона́льный води́тель m (personálʹnyj vodítelʹ), води́тель (ru) m (vodítelʹ), води́тельница (ru) f (vodítelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: возач m, возачица f

  Roman: vòzāč (sh) m, vozàčica (sh) f

• Slovak: šofér m, vodič m
• Slovene: šofer m, voznik (sl) m
• Spanish: chófer (es) m, chofer (es) m
• Swedish: chaufför (sv) c
• Thai: คนขับ (th) (kon-kàp)
• Turkish: şoför (tr), sürücü (tr)
• Ukrainian: шофе́р m (šofér), во́дій m (vódij)
• Vietnamese: tài xế (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) joför (vo), (♂) hijoför, (♀) jijoför
• Yiddish: שאָפֿער‎‎ m (shofer), שאָפֿערשע‎‎ f (shofershe)

fire truck driver

VerbEdit

chauffeur (third-person singular simple present chauffeurs, present participle chauffeuring, simple past and past participle chauffeured)

1. (intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
2. (transitive) To transport (someone) in a motor car.

TranslationsEdit

intransitive: to be, or act as a chauffeur

• Finnish: ajaa (fi)

• German: chauffieren (de)

transitive: to transport someone in a motor car

• Finnish: kuljettaa (fi), ajaa (fi)

• German: ^{(please verify)} chauffieren (de)

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French chauffeur.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ʃoːˈføːr/, /ʃɑu̯ˈføːr/

• chauffeur

  (file)

• Hyphenation: chauf‧feur
• Rhymes: -øːr

NounEdit

chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, diminutive chauffeurtje n, feminine chauffeuse)

1. driver (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)

Derived termsEdit

• buschauffeur
• camionchauffeur
• taxichauffeur
• vrachtwagenchauffeur

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

chauffer +‎ -eur.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.fœʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -œʁ

NounEdit

chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse)

1. driver

   chauffeur de taxi

   taxi driver

2. chauffeur

DescendantsEdit

• Czech: šofér (borrowed)
• Dutch: chauffeur (borrowed)
• English: chauffeur (borrowed)
• Persian: شوفر‎ (šufer) (borrowed)
• Polish: szofer (borrowed)
• Portuguese: chofer (borrowed)
• Russian: шофёр (šofjór) (borrowed)
• Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m/šòfēr (borrowed)
• Spanish: chofer (borrowed)
• Swedish: chaufför (borrowed)

Further readingEdit

• “chauffeur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

chauffeur m, f (plural chauffeurs or chauffeur)

1. Alternative form of chofer