chantage
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See also: Chantage
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
chantage
- blackmail; the extortion of money by threats of scandalous revelations
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From faire chanter + -age.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chantage m (plural chantages)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Albanian: shantazh
- → Asturian: xantaxe
- → Belarusian: шантаж (šantaž)
- → Bulgarian: шанта́ж (šantáž)
- → Catalan: xantatge
- → Esperanto: ĉantaĝo
- → Galician: chantaxe
- → Luxembourgish: Chantage
- → Polish: szantaż
- → Portuguese: chantagem
- → Romanian: șantaj
- → Russian: шантаж (šantaž)
- → Spanish: chantaje
- → Turkish: şantaj
- → Ukrainian: шантаж (šantaž)
Further reading[edit]
- “chantage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
chantage m (plural chantages)
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