shop

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Etymology

From Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa, scoppa (“shop, booth, shed”), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skupǭ (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ʃɒp/, X-SAMPA: /SQp/
• (US) enPR: shäp, IPA: /ʃɑp/, X-SAMPA: /SAp/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

shop (plural shops)

1. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
2. A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
3. An automobile mechanic's workplace.
4. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
5. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
6. (business, computing) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.

   Our company is mostly a Java shop.

7. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.

   This is where I do my weekly shop.

Synonyms

• (establishment that sells goods): boutique, retail outlet, store (US); see also Wikisaurus:retail store
• (place where things are crafted): atelier, studio, workshop
• (automobile mechanic's workplace): garage
• (workplace): office, place of work, workplace
• (wood shop): carpentry, wood shop, woodwork
• (metal shop): metal shop, metalwork

Related terms

• shoppe

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun shop

beauty shop bucket shop charity shop chip shop close up shop coffee shop cop shop corner shop food shop gift shop like a bull in a china shop one-stop shop op shop pawn shop pet shop Photoshop® pound shop repair shop sex shop shoe shop

shopaholic shop assistant shopfloor shopfront shopgirl shopkeep shopkeeper shopman shop right shop steward shop talk shopward shopwards shopworn shut up shop swap shop sweet shop, sweet-shop, sweetshop wood shop workshop

Translations

establishment that sells goods

• Afrikaans: winkel (af)
• Albanian: dyqan (sq) m
• Arabic: دكان (ar) (dukkān) m, متجر (ar) (mátjar) m, محل (ar) (maḥall) m, مخزن (ar) (maxzan) m

  Egyptian Arabic: محل (maHal) m

• Armenian: խանութ (hy) (xanut')
• Azeri: mağaza (az), dükan (az)
• Basque: denda (eu), saltoki (eu)
• Belarusian: крама (be) (kráma) f, магазін (be) (mahazín) m
• Bengali: দোকান (bn) (dōkāna)
• Breton: stal (br) f, stalioù (br) pl
• Bulgarian: магазин (bg) (magazín) m
• Catalan: botiga (ca) f, tenda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商店 (cmn) (shāngdiàn), 店鋪 (cmn), 店铺 (cmn) (diànpù)

• Cornish: shoppa (kw)
• Czech: obchod (cs) m, prodejna (cs) f
• Dalmatian: stasaun
• Danish: butik (da)
• Dutch: winkel (nl) m
• Esperanto: butiko (eo), vendejo (eo)
• Estonian: pood (et), kauplus (et)
• Finnish: myymälä (fi), kauppa (fi)
• French: boutique (fr) f, magasin (fr) m
• Galician: tenda (gl) f
• Georgian: მაღაზია (ka) (maġazia)
• German: Laden (de) m, Geschäft (de) n
• Greek: μαγαζί (el) (magazí) n, κατάστημα (el) (katástima) n
• Greenlandic: pisiniarfik (kl)
• Haitian Creole: magazen
• Hebrew: חֲנוּת (he) (khanút)
• Hindi: दुकान (hi) (dukān) f, दूकान (hi) (dūkān) f
• Hungarian: bolt (hu), üzlet (hu)
• Icelandic: verslun (is) f, búð (is) f
• Ido: butiko (io)
• Indonesian: toko (id)
• Interlingua: boteca (ia)
• Irish: siopa (ga) m
• Italian: magazzino (it) m, negozio (it) m
• Japanese: 店 (ja) (みせ, mise), 商店 (ja) (shōten)
• Jèrriais: boutique f
• Kamba: ndukani
• Kannada: ಅಂಗಡಿ (kn) (aṅgaḍi)
• Khmer: ហាង (km) (hāng)

• Kikuyu: nduka
• Korean: 가게 (ko) (gage) (假家 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: دوکان (ku)

• Latin: taberna (la) f
• Latvian: veikals (lv)
• Lithuanian: parduotuvė (lt) f
• Luhya: liduka
• Macedonian: продавница (mk) (prodávnica) f, дуќан (mk) (dúḱan) m
• Malay: kedai (ms)
• Maltese: ħanut (mt), negozju (mt)
• Manx: shapp (gv)
• Northern Sami: gávpi
• Norwegian: butikk (no) m, forretning (no) m
• Persian: دکان (fa) (dokān), مغازه (fa) (mağâze)
• Polish: sklep (pl) m
• Portuguese: loja (pt) f
• Romanian: magazin (ro) n
• Russian: магазин (ru) (magazín) m, лавка (ru) (lávka) f (antiquated.)
• Santali: ᱫᱳᱠᱚᱱ (dokan)
• Scottish Gaelic: bùth (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: продавница (sh) f, дућан (sh) m

  Roman: prodavnica (sh) f, dućan (sh) m

• Slovene: trgovina (sl) f
• Sotho: lebenkele (st)
• Spanish: tienda (es) f, negocio (es) m, comercio (es) m
• Swahili: duka (sw)
• Swedish: magasin (sv), affär (sv) c, butik (sv) c, kiosk (sv) c
• Tagalog: tindahan (tl)
• Tamil: கடை (ta) (kaṭai)
• Taos: tį̀ęndo’óna
• Telugu: షాప్ (te) (ṣāp)
• Tetum: loja (tet), toko (tet)
• Thai: ร้าน (th) (ráan)
• Turkish: dükkan (tr), dükkân (tr), mağaza (tr)
• Ukrainian: крамниця (uk) (kramnýcja) f, магазин (uk) (mahazýn) m
• Urdu: دکان (ur) (dukān) f, دوکان (ur) (dūkān) f
• Uyghur: ماگىزىن (ug) (magizin)
• Uzbek: magazin (uz)
• Vietnamese: cửa hàng (vi)
• Volapük: selidöp (vo)
• Welsh: siop (cy) f
• Yiddish: קראָם (yi) (krom), געשעפֿט (yi) (gesheft), געװעלב (yi) (gevalb), קלײט (yi) (kleyt)

workshop

• Basque: lantegi (eu), lantoki (eu)
• Breton: stal-labour (br) f
• Cornish: shoppa (kw)
• Finnish: paja (fi), työpaja (fi), tehdas (fi)
• French: atelier (fr) m
• Galician: obradoiro (gl) m
• German: Werkstatt (de) f
• Greek: εργαστήριο (el) (ergastírio) n, συνεργείο (el) (synergeío) n
• Hindi: दुकान (hi) (dukān) f, दूकान (hi) (dūkān) f
• Hungarian: műhely (hu)

• Italian: bottega (it)
• Latin: officina (la) f
• Macedonian: работилница (mk) (rabotílnica) f, дуќан (mk) (dúḱan) m
• Maltese: ħanut (mt)
• Persian: دکان (fa) (dokān)
• Polish: warsztat (pl) m
• Russian: мастерская (ru) (masterskája) f
• Serbo-Croatian: radionica (sh) f
• Spanish: taller (es) m
• Urdu: دکان (ur) (dukān) f, دوکان (ur) (dūkān) f

a class taught typically in junior high school, teaching vocational skill

• Finnish: käsityö (fi), puutyö (fi), metallityö (fi)

• Norwegian: sløyd (no) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: (4) boutique en ligne (fr) f, (4) magasin virtuel (fr) m (= online shop; were these for a deleted sense?)
• Spanish: tienda (es) f, (formal usage) comercio (es) m, (colloquial) negocio (es) m, (Colombia) almacén (es) m, (small shop) changarro (es) m (Mexico)
• Swahili: duka (sw), (noun 5/6) maduka (sw) pl

Verb

shop (third-person singular simple present shops, present participle shopping, simple past and past participle shopped)

1. (intransitive) To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.

   I went shopping ; he’s shopping for clothes.

2. (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority; to "grass up".

   He shopped his mates in to the police.

3. (transitive, Internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

Translations

to visit shops

• Arabic: تسوق (ar) (tasawwaqa), تبضع (ar) (tabaḍḍaʿa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 買東西 (cmn), 买东西 (cmn) (mǎi dōngxi), 購物 (cmn), 购物 (cmn) (gòuwù)

• Czech: nakupovat (cs)
• Danish: handle (da), shoppe (da)
• Dutch: winkelen (nl), inkopen doen (nl), shoppen (nl)
• Esperanto: butikumi (eo)
• Finnish: käydä kaupassa (fi), shoppailla (fi)
• French: faire les magasins (fr), ‎faire du shopping, faire des courses (fr), faire des achats (fr)
• German: einkaufen (de)
• Greek: ψωνίζω (el) (psonízo)
• Hungarian: vásárol (hu)
• Italian: andare per negozi (it)
• Japanese: 買い物をする (ja) (かいものをする, kaimono o suru)

• Jèrriais: boutitchi
• Macedonian: купува (mk) (kúpuva) пазари (mk) (pázari)
• Norwegian: handle (no), shoppe (no)
• Polish: kupować (pl), robić zakupy (pl)
• Portuguese: ir às compras (pt)
• Romanian: merge la cumpărături (ro)
• Russian: делать покупки (ru) (délatʹ pokúpki), покупать (ru) (pokupátʹ)
• Slovene: nakupovati (sl)
• Spanish: ir de compras (es)
• Swedish: handla (sv) (1), shoppa (sv) (1)
• Ukrainian: ходити до крамниць (uk) (xodýty do kramnýcʹ)
• Vietnamese: đi mua hàng (vi)
• Welsh: siopa (cy)

Derived terms

• shop around
• shopper
• shop till you drop
• window shopping

Interjection

shop

1. Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

Anagrams

• hops, hosp, OHPs, posh, soph