shampoo
English
Alternative forms
- champoo (dated)
Etymology
From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), from the Sanskrit verb चपयति (capayati, “to pound, 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)
- (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.
- Synonyms: bubbly, champers, fizz
Descendants
- → Basque: xanpu
- → Catalan: xampú
- ⇒ Chinese: 香波 (xiāngbō)
- → Danish: shampoo
- → Dutch: shampoo
- → Galician: xampú
- → German: Shampoo
- → Estonian: šampoon
- → Hungarian: sampon
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ша̀мпо̄н
- Latin: šàmpōn
- → Faroese: sjampo
- → Finnish: shampoo, sampoo, šampoo
- → French: shampooing, shampoing
- → Romanian: șampon
- → Turkish: şampuan
- → 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, shampoo, xampu
- → Hunsrik: Schampu
- → Spanish: champú, shampoo, yampú
- → Swedish: schampo
- → Thai: แชมพู (chɛɛm-puu)
- → Zulu: ishampu
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Verb
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
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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)
- shampoo (soap for washing hair)
Declension
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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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).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɑm.poː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sham‧poo
Noun
shampoo m (plural shampoos, diminutive shampootje n)
- shampoo (product for washing hair)
Derived terms
- shampooën
- babyshampoo
Descendants
- → Indonesian: sampo
Finnish
Alternative forms
- šampoo
- sampoo
Etymology
Borrowed from English shampoo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɑmp(ː)oː/, [ˈʃɑmp(ː)o̞ː]
- IPA(key): /ˈsɑmp(ː)oː/, [ˈs̠ɑmp(ː)o̞ː]
- IPA(key): /ˈshɑmp(ː)oː/, [ˈs̠hɑmp(ː)o̞ː]
- Rhymes: -ɑmpoː
- Syllabification(key): sham‧poo
Noun
shampoo
- shampoo (commercial liquid soap)
Declension
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 | |
instructive | — | shampoin | |
abessive | shampootta | shampoitta | |
comitative | — | shampoineen |
Possessive forms of shampoo (type filee) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | shampooni | shampoomme |
2nd person | shampoosi | shampoonne |
3rd person | shampoonsa |
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)
- shampoo (detergent, washing of hair with such detergent)
Derived terms
- dopo-shampoo
- shampista
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.
Noun
shampoo m (plural shampoos)
- Alternative spelling of xampu; Alternative form of champô
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃamˈpu/ [ʃãmˈpu], /t͡ʃamˈpu/ [t͡ʃãmˈpu]
- Rhymes: -u
Noun
shampoo m (plural shampoos)
- 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.