shampoo
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- champoo (dated)
Etymology edit
From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), mid 18th c.
Pronunciation edit
- (US) IPA(key): /ʃæmˈpuː/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ʃamˈpuː/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uː
- Hyphenation: sham‧poo
Noun edit
shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)
- (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
- A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.
- Coordinate term: conditioner
- An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
- Synonym: shampooing
- I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.
- (humorous, slang) Champagne.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Basque: xanpu
- → Catalan: xampú
- ⇒ Chinese: 香波 (xiāngbō)
- → Danish: shampoo
- → Dutch: shampoo
- → Galician: xampú
- → German: Shampoo
- → Faroese: sjampo
- → Finnish: shampoo, sampoo, šampoo
- → French: shampooing, shampoing; champoing
- → 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:
- → Portuguese: champô, xampu; (unadapted form) shampoo
- → Hunsrik: Schampu
- → Spanish: champú, shampoo, yampú
- → Swedish: schampo
- → Thai: แชมพู (chɛɛm-puu)
- → Yiddish: שאַמפּו (shampu)
- → Zulu: ishampu
Translations edit
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Verb edit
shampoo (third-person singular simple present shampoos, present participle shampooing, simple past and past participle shampooed)
- (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.
- (transitive) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
- (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 edit
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Further reading edit
- shampoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “shampoo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English shampoo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
shampoo c (singular definite shampooen, plural indefinite shampooer)
- shampoo (soap for washing hair)
Declension edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | shampoo | shampooen | shampooer | shampooerne |
genitive | shampoos | shampooens | shampooers | shampooernes |
Derived terms edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English shampoo, from Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
shampoo m (plural shampoos, diminutive shampootje n)
- shampoo (product for washing hair)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “shampoo” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English shampoo.
Pronunciation edit
- 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
Noun edit
shampoo
- shampoo (commercial liquid soap)
Declension edit
Inflection of shampoo (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation) | ||||
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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. |
Further reading edit
- “shampoo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English shampoo, from Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po, “knead!”), from the Sanskrit root चपयति (capayati, “to pound, to knead”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
shampoo m (invariable)
- shampoo (detergent, washing of hair with such detergent)
Derived terms edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
shampoo m (plural shampoos)
Usage notes edit
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 edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
shampoo m (plural shampoos)
- Alternative spelling of champú
Usage notes edit
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.