shampoo
English
/ʃæmˈpuː/, /ʃamˈpuː/
noun
Definitions
- (originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
- A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.
- An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
- (humorous) Champagne.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi चाँपो (knead, press).
Origin
Hindi
चाँपो
Gloss
knead, press
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- reshampoo English
- shampooable English
- shampooer English
- shampooey English
- shampooing English
- shampoolike English
- autoshampoo Finnish
- shampoo Finnish
- Haarshampoo German
- Shampoo German
- dopo-shampoo Italian
- shampista Italian
- shampoo Italian
- babyshampoo Dutch, Flemish
- shampoo Dutch, Flemish
- shampoo Spanish, Castilian
- sjampo Norwegian Bokmål
- shampoo Portuguese
- xampu Portuguese
- schampo Swedish
- シャンプー Japanese
- sjampo Norwegian Nynorsk
- चपयति Sanskrit
- seampú Irish
- shampoo Danish
- xampú Catalan, Valencian
- sjampó Icelandic
- चाँपो Hindi
- शैंपू Hindi
- แชมพู Thai
- sjampo Faroese
- 샴푸 Korean
- ishampu Zulu
- xanpu Basque