chimney

See also: çhymney

English

Alternative forms

chimley, chimbley (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English chymeney, chymney, chymne, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camīnāta, from Latin camīnus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪmni/, (proscribed) /ˈt͡ʃɪməni/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

chimney (plural chimneys or (archaic) chimnies)

a chimney

A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
Synonym: (Northern England, Scotland) lum
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134:
  Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
  Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths.
The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
(Britain) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
(vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.
(Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.

Derived terms

chimney balloon
chimney-breast
chimney campanula
chimney can
chimney cap
chimney corner
chimney-duty
chimney effect
chimney flashing
chimney-glass
chimney hook
chimney money
chimney-money
chimney pot
chimney-pot hat
Chimney Rock
chimney stack
chimney stalk
chimney swallow
chimney sweep
chimney sweep's cancer
chimney sweep's carcinoma
chimney swift
fairy chimney
smoke like a chimney

Descendants

→ Bengali: চিমনি (cimôni)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: चिमनी (cimnī)
Urdu: چمنی‎ (cimnī)

Translations

vertical tube or hollow column; a flue

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: skoorsteen (af)
Albanian: oxhak (sq) m
Arabic: مَدْخَنَة‎ f (madḵana)
Armenian: ծխնելույզ (hy) (cxneluyz)
Asturian: chimenea (ast) f
Avar: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: baca
Bashkir: мөрйә (möryä)
Belarusian: дымахо́д m (dymaxód), ко́мін m (kómin)
Bengali: চিমনি (bn) (cimôni)
Bulgarian: коми́н (bg) m (komín)
Burmese: ခေါင်းတိုင် (my) (hkaung:tuing)
Catalan: xemeneia (ca) f
Cebuano: simaniya
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Cherokee: ᎠᎱᏣᏬᎳᏛᎢ (ahutsawoladvi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 煙筒／烟筒 (zh) (yāntong), 煙囪／烟囱 (zh) (yāncōng), 煙窗／烟窗 (zh) (yānchuāng)
Czech: komín (cs) m
Dalmatian: camain m
Danish: skorsten (da) c, skorstenspibe c
Daur: xolly
Dutch: schoorsteen (nl) m, schouw (nl) m
Esperanto: kameno
Estonian: korsten (et)
Faroese: skorsteinur m
Finnish: savukanava (fi), savupiippu (fi)
French: cheminée (fr) f
Friulian: cjamin m, čhamìn m
Galician: cheminea (gl) f, chaminea f, fumeira f, parrumeira f, paraña f, tamboira f, troneira f
Georgian: საკვამური (saḳvamuri), ბუხარი (buxari), კვამლსადენი (ḳvamlsadeni), საკვამლე მილი (saḳvamle mili)
German: Kamin (de) m, Esse (de) f, Schlot (de) m, Schornstein (de) m
Greek: καπνοδόχος (el) f (kapnodóchos), καμινάδα (el) (kamináda), φουγάρο (el) n (fougáro) (ships etc.)
Ancient: καπνοδόκη f (kapnodókē), κάπνη f (kápnē)
Gujarati: ધુમાડિયું (dhumāḍiyũ)
Hebrew: ארובה \\ אֲרֻבָּה‎ (he) f ('arubá)
Hindi: चिमनी (hi) f (cimnī), धुआँकश (hi) m (dhuā̃kaś)
Hungarian: kémény (hu), kürtő (hu), kéménycső, kéménykürtő
Icelandic: reykháfur (is) m, skorsteinn m, strompur m
Indonesian: cerobong (id)
Irish: múchán m, simléar (ga) m, toiteachán m
Italian: camino (it) m, ciminiera (it) f
Japanese: 煙突 (ja) (えんとつ, entotsu), 煙出し (kemudashi), 煙り出し (kemuridashi)
Kazakh: мұржа (kk) (mūrja)
Korean: 굴뚝 (ko) (gulttuk)
Kyrgyz: мор (mor), чыккыч (çıkkıç)
Lao: ປ່ອງ (pǭng), ປ່ອງໄຟ (pǭng fai)
Latin: camīnus m, fūmārium n
Latvian: dūmenis m, skurstenis m (germanism)
Lithuanian: kaminas m
Luxembourgish: Kamäin m
Macedonian: о́џак m (ódžak)
Malay: serombong
Malayalam: ചിമ്മിനി (ml) (cimmini), പുകക്കുഴൽ (ml) (pukakkuḻal)
Manchu: ᡥᡡᠯᠠᠨ (hūlan)
Manipuri: ꯃꯩꯈꯨꯊꯣꯡ (meikhuthong)
Maori: timera, putaauahi, tumera
Mongolian: камин зүүх (kamin züüx), яндан (mn) (jandan)
Norman: cheunm'née f (Jersey), chim'naïe f (Guernsey), chimnee f (Sark), chouque dé chimenaée (continental Normandy)
Norwegian: pipe (no) f, skorstein m
Ossetian: фӕздӕгдзон (fæzdægʒon)
Ottoman Turkish: اوجاق‎ (ocak)
Persian: دودکش‎ (fa) (dudkeš)
Polish: komin (pl) m, dymnik
Portuguese: chaminé (pt) f
Romanian: coș (ro) n, horn (ro) n, cămin (ro) n, fumar (ro) n
Russian: труба́ (ru) f (trubá), дымохо́д (ru) m (dymoxód), дымова́я труба́ f (dymovája trubá)
Scots: lum
Scottish Gaelic: similear m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ди̑мња̄к m, о̀џак m
Roman: dȋmnjāk (sh) m, òdžak (sh) m
Skolt Sami: truuba, reä´ppen
Slovak: komín m
Slovene: dimnik (sl) m
Spanish: chimenea (es) f
Swahili: dohani
Swedish: skorsten (sv) c
Tagalog: pausukan
Tajik: дудбаро (tg) (dudbaro), дудкаш (dudkaš)
Tamil: புகைப்போக்கி (ta) (pukaippōkki)
Thai: ปล่อง (th) (bplɔ̀ng), ปล่องควัน (bplɔ̀ng-kwan), ปล่องไฟ (bplɔ̀ng-fai)
Turkish: baca (tr)
Turkmen: truba
Tuvan: хоолай (xoolay), ыш үндүрер хоолай (ış ündürer xoolay)
Ukrainian: димова́ труба́ f (dymová trubá), димохі́д m (dymoxíd)
Urdu: چمنی‎ f (cimnī)
Uzbek: moʻri (uz), truba (uz)
Venetian: camin (vec) m
Vietnamese: ống khói (vi)
Volapük: cim (vo)
Welsh: ffynnel
Westrobothnian: mur m
Yiddish: קוימען‎ (koymen)
Zazaki: loce

glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp

Bengali: চিমনি (bn) (cimôni)
Bulgarian: лампено шише (lampeno šiše)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 玻璃燈罩／玻璃灯罩 (bōlí dēngzhào)
Czech: cylindr (cs) m
Dutch: lampenkap (nl) f
Finnish: öljylampun lasi, liekkilasi
Georgian: კვამლსადენი (ḳvamlsadeni)
German: Kamin (de) m
Hungarian: olajlámpaüveg, lámpaüveg (hu), cilinder (hu)
Irish: gloine lampa f, simléar lampa m
Italian: fumaiolo (it) m, bulbo (it) m
Portuguese: manga (pt) f
Russian: ла́мповое стекло́ n (lámpovoje stekló)
Spanish: tubo (es) m

UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive

Chinese:
Mandarin: 煙囪／烟囱 (zh) (yāncōng)
Czech: komín (cs) m
Dutch: schoorsteen (nl) m
Finnish: savupiippu (fi)
French: cheminée (fr) f
German: Schlot (de) m
Hebrew: מַעֲשֵׁנָה‎ (he) f (ma'ashenah)
Hungarian: kémény (hu)
Icelandic: reykháfur (is) m, strompur m
Italian: fumaiolo (it) m
Maori: timera, putaauahi
Norwegian: skorstein m
Portuguese: chaminé (pt) f
Russian: труба́ (ru) f (trubá)
Scots: lum
Slovene: dimnik (sl) m

narrow cleft in a rock face

Bulgarian: коми́н (bg) m (komín)
Catalan: xemeneia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 煙囪／烟囱 (zh), 烟囱裂口 (lièkǒu)
Dutch: spleet (nl) f
Finnish: kuilu (fi)
German: Spalte (de) f, Schlot (de) m
Italian: camino (it) m
Portuguese: chaminé (pt) f
Russian: расще́лина (ru) f (rasščélina)

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Translations to be checked

Spanish: ^{(please verify)} chimenea (es) f

Verb

chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed)

(climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.