shampoo

• champoo (dated)

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.

• (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

• → Indonesian: sampo

• šampoo
• sampoo

Borrowed from English shampoo.

• 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

shampoo

1. shampoo (commercial liquid soap)

• 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 spelling of xampu; Alternative form of champô

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.