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chamois en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃæmi/ (Received-Pronunciation, singular)
  • /ˈʃæmiz/ (plural)
  • /ˈʃæmi/ (singular)
  • /ʃæmˈwɑ/ (singular)
  • /ˈʃæmwɑː/ (Received-Pronunciation, singular)
  • /ˈʃæmi(z)/ (plural)
  • /ˈʃæmwɑː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʃæmi/ (US, singular)
  • (Southern-England, plural) audio
  • /ʃæmˈwɑz/ (plural)
  • /ʃæmˈwɑ(z)/ (plural)
  • (Southern-England, singular) audio
  • /ʃæmˈwɑ/ (US, singular)
  • (Southern-England, singular) audio
  • (Southern-England, plural) audio
  • /ˈʃæmi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʃæmwɑːz/ (plural)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Chamois-colored.

chamois en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃæmi/ (Received-Pronunciation, singular)
  • /ˈʃæmiz/ (plural)
  • /ˈʃæmi/ (singular)
  • /ʃæmˈwɑ/ (singular)
  • /ˈʃæmwɑː/ (Received-Pronunciation, singular)
  • /ˈʃæmi(z)/ (plural)
  • /ˈʃæmwɑː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʃæmi/ (US, singular)
  • (Southern-England, plural) audio
  • /ʃæmˈwɑz/ (plural)
  • /ʃæmˈwɑ(z)/ (plural)
  • (Southern-England, singular) audio
  • /ʃæmˈwɑ/ (US, singular)
  • (Southern-England, singular) audio
  • (Southern-England, plural) audio
  • /ˈʃæmi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʃæmwɑːz/ (plural)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
    • When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub – a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills. 1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter I, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 22:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of chamois leather (“soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used)”).
    • [H]e seldom donned his armour, substituted costly damask and silk for his war-worn shamoy doublet, and affected at his advanced time of life more gaiety of attire than his contemporaries remembered as distinguishing his early youth. 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], chapter XVI, in Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume I (The Betrothed), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 317:
  3. (countable, uncountable) The traditional colour of chamois leather.
  4. (countable, uncountable) An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.
    • Mirrors can be cleaned with warm water and ammonia or vinegar and polished with a chamois. 1984, Cruising World, page 158:
    • Once your paint has been restored, drying your car with a chamois is just about all you have to do to restore the luster. 1989, Popular Mechanics, page 146:
    • I took them, breathed on them, polished them with a chamois and hung them on the chandelier. 1926, Louise de Koven Bowen, Growing Up with a City, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 39:
  5. (countable, uncountable) A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
chamoix alternative lexicographic
chamoix Number=Plur lexicographic
chamoises Number=Plur lexicographic
shamoy alternative lexicographic
shamois alternative lexicographic
chamois Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

shammy · Alpine chamois · chammy · chamois leather · Pyrenean chamois · ShamWow · cattle chamois

Translations (119)

sl gams (goat-like antelope) · rm chamutsch (goat-like antelope) · uk са́рна (goat-like antelope) · be са́рна (goat-like antelope) · de Gämse (goat-like antelope) · dsb kamzyk (goat-like antelope) · fo gemsa (goat-like antelope) · sh divokoza (goat-like antelope) · es gamuza (cloth) · lt gemzė (goat-like antelope) · pl szewro (cloth) · hsb kamzyk (goat-like antelope) · nb pusseskinn (cloth) · nl gems (goat-like antelope) · sq kamosh (cloth) · bg дива коза (goat-like antelope) · sc crabu aresti (goat-like antelope) · mi temera (goat-like antelope) · az qarapaça (goat-like antelope) · sh дивокоза (goat-like antelope) · uk се́рна (goat-like antelope) · fi säämiskä (cloth) · ja シャモア (goat-like antelope) · io chamo (goat-like antelope) · fi gemssi (goat-like antelope) · mt kamoxx (goat-like antelope) · es rebeco (goat-like antelope) · sv stenget (goat-like antelope) · ja シャモア (cloth) · es sarrio (goat-like antelope) · ga seamaí (cloth) · tl gamusa (cloth) · sk kamzík (goat-like antelope) · ro chamois (goat-like antelope) · es gamuza (goat-like antelope) · gd somar (goat-like antelope) · el αγριοκάτσικο (goat-like antelope) · pt camurça (goat-like antelope) · gl camurza (goat-like antelope) · es gamuza (colour) · hsb gemsa (goat-like antelope) · fy gems (goat-like antelope) · mk дивокоза (goat-like antelope) · ro capră-de-munte (goat-like antelope) · de Sämischleder (cloth) · lbe гьинта (goat-like antelope) · it camoscio (cloth) · cmn 麂皮 (cloth) · br chamoez (goat-like antelope) · ro capră-neagră (goat-like antelope) · ru за́мша (cloth) · ga seamaí (goat-like antelope) · cmn 麂皮革 (cloth) · cy gafrewig (goat-like antelope) · hu szarvasbőr (cloth) · xmf ერსქემი (goat-like antelope) · eu sarrio (goat-like antelope) · sv gems (goat-like antelope) · eo ĉamo (goat-like antelope) · se álpagáica (goat-like antelope) · sk kamzík horský (goat-like antelope) · ang firgengāt (goat-like antelope) · ast robecu (goat-like antelope) · la camox (goat-like antelope) · oc isard (goat-like antelope) · fa کیمخت (cloth) · cmn 沙穆瓦 (cloth) · pl kolor giemzy (colour) · tr dağ keçisi (goat-like antelope) · fr chamois (goat-like antelope) · ca camussa (goat-like antelope) · ru чёрный козёл (goat-like antelope) · ro șamoa (goat-like antelope) · io chamopelo (cloth) · el αίγαγρος (goat-like antelope) · dsb skalna kóza (goat-like antelope) · it rupicapra (goat-like antelope) · pl giemza (cloth) · cy siami (goat-like antelope) · rm camutsch (goat-like antelope) · sc camùsciu (goat-like antelope) · dsb źiwa kóza (goat-like antelope) · hu zerge (goat-like antelope) · cmn 油鞣革 (cloth) · la ībex (goat-like antelope) · el αγριόγιδο (goat-like antelope) · lld ciamorc (goat-like antelope) · ca isard (goat-like antelope) · tl gamusa (goat-like antelope) · tr güderi (cloth) · hsb skalna koza (goat-like antelope) · is gemsa (goat-like antelope) · it camoscio (goat-like antelope) · it camoscio (colour) · io chamea (colour) · rm chamuotsch (goat-like antelope) · cs kamzík (goat-like antelope) · pl giemza (goat-like antelope) · cmn 岩羚羊 (goat-like antelope) · no gemse (goat-like antelope) · hy այծյամ (goat-like antelope) · pl kozica (goat-like antelope) · fur cjamoç (goat-like antelope) · et mägikits (goat-like antelope) · fr isard (goat-like antelope) · bg гюдерия (cloth) · sq kamoshë (goat-like antelope) · an sarrio (goat-like antelope) · cmn 臆羚 (goat-like antelope) · ru се́рна (goat-like antelope) · ja カモシカ (goat-like antelope) · rm tgamutsch (goat-like antelope) · fr chamois (cloth) · gsw Gemschi (goat-like antelope) · gl rebezo (goat-like antelope) · sc camussa (goat-like antelope) · oc camóç (goat-like antelope) · da gemse (goat-like antelope) · de Gams (goat-like antelope)

wikidata: Q131340

chamois en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃæmi/ (Received-Pronunciation, singular)
  • /ˈʃæmiz/ (plural)
  • /ˈʃæmi/ (singular)
  • /ʃæmˈwɑ/ (singular)
  • /ˈʃæmwɑː/ (Received-Pronunciation, singular)
  • /ˈʃæmi(z)/ (plural)
  • /ˈʃæmwɑː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʃæmi/ (US, singular)
  • (Southern-England, plural) audio
  • /ʃæmˈwɑz/ (plural)
  • /ʃæmˈwɑ(z)/ (plural)
  • (Southern-England, singular) audio
  • /ʃæmˈwɑ/ (US, singular)
  • (Southern-England, singular) audio
  • (Southern-England, plural) audio
  • /ˈʃæmi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʃæmwɑːz/ (plural)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To clean with a chamois leather cloth.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
chamoises Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
chamoising Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chamoised Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chamoised Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

shammy