shampoo

• champoo (dated)

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

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

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: sham‧poo

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. A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.

   Coordinate term: conditioner

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

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.

2. (transitive) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
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

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

• oompahs

Borrowed from English shampoo.

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

shampoo c (singular definite shampooen, plural indefinite shampooer)

1. shampoo (soap for washing hair)

• hårshampoo
• skælshampoo

Borrowed from English shampoo, from Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑm.poː/

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• Hyphenation: sham‧poo

shampoo m (plural shampoos, diminutive shampootje n)

1. shampoo (product for washing hair)

• shampooën
• babyshampoo

• → Acehnese: sampô
• → Indonesian: sampo

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

• šampoo
• sampoo

Borrowed from English shampoo.

• 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

shampoo

1. shampoo (commercial liquid soap)

• “shampoo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

• sciampo

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

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

shampoo m (invariable)

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

• dopo-shampoo
• shampista

Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

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

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.

Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.

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

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

1. Alternative spelling of champú

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.