shampoo

See also: Shampoo

English

Alternative forms

• champoo (dated)

Etymology

From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), mid 18th c.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃæmˈpuː/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃamˈpuː/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: sham‧poo

Noun

shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)

1. (originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.

   Synonym: massage

2. (hygiene) A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.

   Coordinate terms: conditioner; bar soap; (idiomatically usually coordinate rather than hypernymous) liquid soap, soap

   • 2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.

3. An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.

   Synonym: shampooing

   I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.

4. (humorous, slang) Champagne.

   Synonyms: bubbly, champers, fizz

Derived terms

• baby shampoo
• shampoo bowl
• shampoo ginger
• wood shampoo

Descendants

• → Basque: xanpu
• → Catalan: xampú
• ⇒ Chinese: 香波 (xiāngbō)
• → Danish: shampoo
• → Dutch: shampoo
  • → Acehnese: sampô
  • → Indonesian: sampo
• → Estonian: šampoon
• → Faroese: sjampo
• → Finnish: shampoo, sampoo, šampoo
• → French: shampooing, shampoing, champoing
  • → Bulgarian: шампоан (šampoan)
  • → Greek: σαμπουάν (sampouán)
  • → Russian: шампунь (šampunʹ)
    • → Armenian: շամպուն (šampun)
    • → Azerbaijani: şampun
    • → Georgian: შამპუნი (šamṗuni)
    • → Lithuanian: šampūnas
  • → Romanian: șampon
  • → Turkish: şampuan
• → Galician: xampú
• → German: Shampoo
  • → Czech: šampón
  • → Hungarian: sampon
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ша̀мпо̄н

    Latin script: šàmpōn

  • → Slovak: šampón
• → Hebrew: שַׁמְפּוּ (shampú), שַׁמְפּוֹ (shampó)
• → Hindi: शैंपू (śaimpū)
• → Icelandic: sjampó
• → Irish: seampú
• → Italian: shampoo, sciampo
• → Japanese: シャンプー (shanpū)
• → Korean: 샴푸 (syampu)
• → Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjampo

  Nynorsk: sjampo

• → Portuguese: champô, xampu (Brazil), (unadapted form) shampoo
  • → Hunsrik: Schampu
• → Spanish: champú, shampoo, yampú
• → Swedish: schampo
• → Thai: แชมพู (chɛɛm-puu)
• → Yiddish: שאַמפּו (shampu)
• → Zulu: ishampu

Translations

massage

product for washing the hair or other fibres

• Albanian: shampo f
• Arabic: شَامْبُو m (šāmbū)

  Hijazi Arabic: شامبو m (šāmbu), شامپو m (šāmpu)

  Moroccan Arabic: شمبوان (šampwān), شنبوان (šanpwān)

• Armenian: շամպուն (hy) (šampun)
• Asturian: xampú (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: şampun
• Basque: xanpu
• Belarusian: шампу́нь m (šampúnʹ)
• Bengali: শ্যাম্পু (bn) (śêmpu)
• Bulgarian: шампоа́н (bg) m (šampoán)
• Burmese: ခေါင်းလျှော်ရည် (my) (hkaung:hlyaurany)
• Catalan: xampú (ca) m
• Chickasaw: ishtayili'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 洗頭水 / 洗头水 (sai² tau⁴ seoi²), 洗髮水 / 洗发水 (sai² faat³ seoi²), 洗髮精 / 洗发精 (sai² faat³ zing¹)

  Hokkien: 洗髮精 / 洗发精 (zh-min-nan) (sé-hoat-cheng, sóe-hoat-cheng)

  Mandarin: 洗髮水 / 洗发水 (zh) (xǐfàshuǐ), 洗髮精 / 洗发精 (xǐfàjīng), 洗髮劑 / 洗发剂 (zh) (xǐfàjì), 香波 (zh) (xiāngbō) (loanword), 洗髮露 / 洗发露 (zh) (xǐfàlù, xǐfǎlù)

• Corsican: sciampu m
• Czech: šampón m
• Danish: shampoo (da) c
• Dutch: shampoo (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝampuo (eo), harsapo
• Estonian: šampoon (et)
• Faroese: hársápa f, sjampo n
• Finnish: shampoo (fi), sampoo (fi), hiustenpesuaine (fi)
• French: shampoing (fr) m, shampooing (fr) m
• Galician: xampú (gl) m
• Georgian: შამპუნი (šamṗuni)
• German: Shampoo (de) n, Schampu n, Schampon n, Schampun (de) n, Haarwaschmittel n
• Greek: σαμπουάν (el) n (sampouán)
• Hebrew: שַׁמְפּוּ (he) m (shampú), שַׁמְפּוֹ (he) m (shampó)
• Hindi: शैंपू m (śaimpū)
• Hungarian: sampon (hu)
• Hunsrik: Schampu n
• Icelandic: sjampó (is) n
• Indonesian: sampo (id)
• Irish: seampú m
• Italian: sciampo (it) m
• Japanese: シャンプー (ja) (shanpū)
• Kazakh: сусабын (susabyn)
• Khmer: ថ្នាំកក់ (thnam kɑk), សាប៊ូកក់សក់ (saabuu kɑk sɑk)
• Korean: 샴푸 (ko) (syampu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شامپۆ (şampo)

  Northern Kurdish: şampo (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: суусамын (suusamın), шампунь (şampun)
• Lao: ນ້ຳຍາສະຜົມ (nam nyā sa phom)
• Latvian: šampūns m
• Lithuanian: šampūnas m
• Luxembourgish: Shampoing (lb) m
• Macedonian: шампо́н (mk) m (šampón)
• Malay: syampu (ms)
• Maltese: xampù m
• Marathi: शाम्पू m (śāmpū), शॅम्पू m (śĕmpū)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шампунь (šampunʹ)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjampo (no) m

• Occitan: shampong (oc) m
• Persian:

  Dari: شَامْپُو (šāmpū)

  Iranian Persian: شامْپو (šâmpu)

• Picard: chanpounhe m
• Polish: szampon (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) xampu (pt) m, (Portugal) champô (pt) m
• Romanian: șampon (ro) n
• Russian: шампу́нь (ru) m (šampúnʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ша̀мпо̄н m

  Roman: šàmpōn (sh) m

• Sicilian: sciampu m, sciampù m
• Sinhalese: ෂැම්පු (ṣæmpu)
• Slovak: šampón m
• Slovene: šampon (sl) m
• Spanish: champú (es) m, shampú m
• Swahili: shampuu
• Swedish: schampo (sv) n
• Tagalog: siyampu
• Tajik: шампун (šampun)
• Thai: แชมพู (th) (chɛɛm-puu), ยาสระผม (th) (yaa-sà-pǒm)
• Turkish: şampuan (tr)
• Turkmen: şampun
• Ukrainian: шампу́нь m (šampúnʹ)
• Urdu: شَیمْپُو m (śaimpū)
• Uzbek: shampun (uz)
• Vietnamese: dầu gội đầu, xà bông (vi), dầu gội
• Volapük: jämpod
• Welsh: siampŵ m
• West Frisian: sjampû m, shampoo m
• Yiddish: שאַמפּו m (shampu)

instance of washing the hair with shampoo

• Apache:

  Western Apache: nitsii ’ghá-í táôâ’ee’â

• Finnish: hiustenpesu
• French: shampoing (fr) m
• German: Haarwäsche f
• Greek: λούσιμο (el) n (loúsimo)
• Macedonian: шампони́рање n (šamponíranje)
• Romanian: șamponare f
• Swedish: schamponering (sv) c
• Turkish: şampuan (tr)

instance of washing other fibres with shampoo

• Finnish: vaahtopesu
• French: shampoing (fr) m
• Swedish: schamponering (sv) c

humorous slang: champagne

• Finnish: skumppa (fi), samppis, samppakalja (fi)
• German: Schampus (de) m
• Russian: шампу́нь (ru) m (šampúnʹ) (colloquial), шампу́сик (ru) m (šampúsik) (colloquial, humorous)

Verb

shampoo (third-person singular simple present shampoos, present participle shampooing, simple past and past participle shampooed)

1. (intransitive) To wash one's own hair with shampoo.

   My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.

   • 2021 November 6, Sali Hughes, “Colour me impressed: a brilliant new eco hair dye has hit the shelves”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     You then apply the conditioner mix to shampooed hair, from root to tip, and after 10 minutes, rinse out as normal.

   • 2024 June 21, Danielle Sinay, “Is Sunscreen Bad for You? TikTok’s Anti-SPF Movement, Explained”, in Glamour‎^[3]:

     WellnessTok has done it again. After convincing people to shampoo once monthly and tan with nasal spray, it now has users asking: Is sunscreen bad for you?

2. (transitive) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
   • 2010, Rudyard Kipling with James Daley, comp., “The Maltese Cat”, in Great Horse Stories, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 95:

     Each pony had his sais, his groom, who lived and ate and slept with the animal, and had betted a good deal more than he could afford on the result of the game. There was no chance of anything going wrong, but to make sure, each sais was shampooing the legs of his pony to the last minute. Behind the saises sat as many of the Skidars' regiment as had leave to attend the match […]

3. (transitive) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.

   Synonym: massage

Translations

to wash hair with shampoo

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗頭 / 洗头 (zh) (xǐtóu)

• Dutch: shampooën (nl), shamponeren
• Esperanto: ŝampui
• Finnish: pestä shampoolla; shamponoida (to spread the shampoo and rub it in)
• French: shampouiner (fr)
• German: schamponieren
• Greek: λούζω (el) (loúzo)
• Hungarian: samponoz, besamponoz
• Lao: ສະຜົມ (sa phom)
• Macedonian: шампони́ра impf or pf (šamponíra)
• Spanish: shampusear
• Swedish: schamponera (sv)
• Thai: สระผม (sà-pǒm)
• Turkish: şampuanlamak (tr)

to wash (the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo

• Finnish: pestä shampoolla
• German: schampunieren, schamponieren, shampoonieren (de), das Haar waschen, den Kopf waschen, den Teppich schampunieren
• Spanish: shampusear
• Swedish: schamponera (sv)
• Volapük: jämpodön

Further reading

• shampoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “shampoo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• oompahs

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shampoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjampo/, /ˈsjaːmpu(ː)/, [ˈɕɑmpʰo], [ˈɕæːmpʰu(ː)]

Noun

shampoo c (singular definite shampooen, plural indefinite shampooer)

1. shampoo (soap for washing hair)

Declension

Declension of shampoo

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	shampoo	shampooen	shampooer	shampooerne
genitive	shampoos	shampooens	shampooers	shampooernes

Derived terms

• hårshampoo
• skælshampoo

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shampoo, from Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po). In this instance, ⟨-oo⟩ is pronounced as /oː/ instead of /u/, and it is possibly a spelling pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑm.poː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sham‧poo

Noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos, diminutive shampootje n)

1. shampoo (product for washing hair)

Derived terms

• shampooën
• babyshampoo

Descendants

• → Acehnese: sampô
• → Indonesian: sampo

Further reading

• “shampoo” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Finnish

Alternative forms

• šampoo
• sampoo

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English shampoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑmp(ː)oː/, [ˈʃɑ̝mp(ː)o̞ː]
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmp(ː)oː/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝mp(ː)o̞ː]
• IPA^(key): /ˈshɑmp(ː)oː/, [ˈs̠hɑ̝mp(ː)o̞ː]
• Rhymes: -ɑmpoː
• Syllabification^(key): sham‧poo
• Hyphenation^(key): sham‧poo

Noun

shampoo

1. shampoo (commercial liquid soap)

Declension

Inflection of shampoo (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation)
nominative		shampoo	shampoot
genitive		shampoon	shampoiden shampoitten
partitive		shampoota	shampoita
illative		shampoohon shampooseen	shampoihin shampoisiin
		singular	plural
nominative		shampoo	shampoot
accusative	nom.	shampoo	shampoot
	gen.	shampoon
genitive		shampoon	shampoiden shampoitten
partitive		shampoota	shampoita
inessive		shampoossa	shampoissa
elative		shampoosta	shampoista
illative		shampoohon shampooseen	shampoihin shampoisiin
adessive		shampoolla	shampoilla
ablative		shampoolta	shampoilta
allative		shampoolle	shampoille
essive		shampoona	shampoina
translative		shampooksi	shampoiksi
abessive		shampootta	shampoitta
instructive		—	shampoin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of shampoo (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative shampooni shampooni accusative nom. shampooni shampooni gen. shampooni genitive shampooni shampoideni shampoitteni partitive shampootani shampoitani inessive shampoossani shampoissani elative shampoostani shampoistani illative shampoohoni shampooseeni shampoihini shampoisiini adessive shampoollani shampoillani ablative shampooltani shampoiltani allative shampoolleni shampoilleni essive shampoonani shampoinani translative shampookseni shampoikseni abessive shampoottani shampoittani instructive — — comitative — shampoineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative shampoosi shampoosi accusative nom. shampoosi shampoosi gen. shampoosi genitive shampoosi shampoidesi shampoittesi partitive shampootasi shampoitasi inessive shampoossasi shampoissasi elative shampoostasi shampoistasi illative shampoohosi shampooseesi shampoihisi shampoisiisi adessive shampoollasi shampoillasi ablative shampooltasi shampoiltasi allative shampoollesi shampoillesi essive shampoonasi shampoinasi translative shampooksesi shampoiksesi abessive shampoottasi shampoittasi instructive — — comitative — shampoinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative shampoomme shampoomme accusative nom. shampoomme shampoomme gen. shampoomme genitive shampoomme shampoidemme shampoittemme partitive shampootamme shampoitamme inessive shampoossamme shampoissamme elative shampoostamme shampoistamme illative shampoohomme shampooseemme shampoihimme shampoisiimme adessive shampoollamme shampoillamme ablative shampooltamme shampoiltamme allative shampoollemme shampoillemme essive shampoonamme shampoinamme translative shampooksemme shampoiksemme abessive shampoottamme shampoittamme instructive — — comitative — shampoinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative shampoonne shampoonne accusative nom. shampoonne shampoonne gen. shampoonne genitive shampoonne shampoidenne shampoittenne partitive shampootanne shampoitanne inessive shampoossanne shampoissanne elative shampoostanne shampoistanne illative shampoohonne shampooseenne shampoihinne shampoisiinne adessive shampoollanne shampoillanne ablative shampooltanne shampoiltanne allative shampoollenne shampoillenne essive shampoonanne shampoinanne translative shampooksenne shampoiksenne abessive shampoottanne shampoittanne instructive — — comitative — shampoinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative shampoonsa shampoonsa accusative nom. shampoonsa shampoonsa gen. shampoonsa genitive shampoonsa shampoidensa shampoittensa partitive shampootaan shampootansa shampoitaan shampoitansa inessive shampoossaan shampoossansa shampoissaan shampoissansa elative shampoostaan shampoostansa shampoistaan shampoistansa illative shampoohonsa shampooseensa shampoihinsa shampoisiinsa adessive shampoollaan shampoollansa shampoillaan shampoillansa ablative shampooltaan shampooltansa shampoiltaan shampoiltansa allative shampoolleen shampoollensa shampoilleen shampoillensa essive shampoonaan shampoonansa shampoinaan shampoinansa translative shampookseen shampooksensa shampoikseen shampoiksensa abessive shampoottaan shampoottansa shampoittaan shampoittansa instructive — — comitative — shampoineen shampoinensa

Derived terms

compounds

• autoshampoo
• hilseshampoo
• kuivashampoo
• lääkeshampoo
• munashampoo
• sävyteshampoo
• vauvashampoo
• yrttishampoo
• öljyshampoo

Further reading

• “shampoo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Italian

Alternative forms

• sciampo

Etymology

Borrowed from English shampoo, from Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po, “knead!”), from the Sanskrit root चपयति (capayati, “to pound, to knead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃam.po/
• Rhymes: -ampo
• Hyphenation: shàm‧poo

Noun

shampoo m (invariable)

1. shampoo (detergent, washing of hair with such detergent)

Derived terms

• dopo-shampoo
• shampista

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃ˈpu/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃ˈpo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃ˈpo/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɐ̃ˈpo/

Noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

1. Alternative form of xampu
2. Alternative form of champô

Usage notes

The word was adapted to Brazilian Portuguese as xampu, reflecting the English pronunciation. The European Portuguese adaptation of champô is closer to the Hindi pronunciation.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃamˈpu/ [ʃãmˈpu], /t͡ʃamˈpu/ [t͡ʃãmˈpu]
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

1. Alternative spelling of champú

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.