English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Borrowing from Old French cheminee Latin caminus Ancient Greek κάμινος ( káminos , “ furnace ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
( UK , US ) IPA (key ) : /tʃɪmni/ , ( proscribed ) /tʃɪməni/
chimney (plural chimneys
A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydro-carbon based fuels ); a flue .
1883: Robert Louis Stevenson , Treasure Island
Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp .
( Britain ) The smokestack of a steam locomotive .A narrow cleft in a rock face ; a narrow vertical cave passage .
Derived terms [ edit ]
Terms derived from chimney
Translations [ edit ]
vertical tube or hollow column; a flue
Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: skoorsteen
Albanian: oxhak (sq) m
Arabic: مَدْخَنَة f ( madḵana )
Armenian: ծխնելույզ (hy) ( cxneluyz )
Asturian: chimenea f
Avar: please add this translation if you can
Azeri: baca
Bashkir: мөрйә ( möryä )
Belarusian: дымахо́д m ( dymaxód ) , ко́мін m ( kómin )
Bengali: চিমনী ( cimni )
Bulgarian: коми́н (bg) m ( komín )
Burmese: ခေါင်းတိုင် (my) ( hkaung:tuing )
Catalan: xemeneia (ca) f
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 煙囪 (zh) , 烟囱 (zh) ( yāncōng ) , 煙窗 (zh) , 烟窗 (zh) ( yānchuāng )
Czech: komín (cs) m
Dalmatian: camain m
Danish: skorsten (da) c skorstenspibe c
Dutch: schoorsteen (nl) m schouw (nl) m
Esperanto: kameno
Estonian: korsten
Faroese: skorsteinur m
Finnish: savukanava (fi) , savupiippu (fi)
French: cheminée (fr) f
Friulian: cjamin m čhamìn m
Galician: cheminea (gl) f fumeira f
Georgian: საკვამური ( saḳvamuri ) , ბუხარი ( buxari ) , კვამლსადენი ( ḳvamlsadeni ) , საკვამლე მილი ( saḳvamle mili )
German: Kamin (de) m Esse (de) f Schlot (de) m Schornstein (de) m
Greek: καπνοδόχος (el) f ( kapnodóchos ) , καμινάδα (el) ( kamináda ) , φουγάρο (el) n ( fougáro ) ( ships etc. )
Gujarati: ધુમાડિયું ( dhumāḍiyũ )
Hebrew: ארובה \ אֲרֻבָּה (he) f ( 'arubá )
Hindi: चिमनी (hi) f ( cimnī ) , धुआँकश (hi) m ( dhuā̃kaś )
Hungarian: kémény (hu) , kürtő (hu)
Icelandic: reykháfur (is) m skorsteinn m strompur m
Indonesian: cerobong (id)
Irish: múchán m simléar (ga) m toiteachán m
Italian: camino (it) m
Japanese: 煙突 (ja) ( えんとつ , entotsu) , 煙出し ( kemudashi ) , 煙り出し ( kemuridashi )
Kazakh: мұржа (kk) ( murja )
Korean: 굴뚝 (ko) ( gulttuk )
Kyrgyz: мор ( mor ) , чыккыч ( çıkkıç )
Lao: ປ່ອງ ( pǭng ) , ປ່ອງໄຟ ( pǭng fai )
Latin: camīnus m fūmārium n
Latvian: dūmenis m skurstenis m ( germanism )
Lithuanian: kaminas m
Luxembourgish: Kamäin m
Macedonian: о́џак m ( ódžak )
Malay: serombong
Maori: timera putaauahi
Mongolian: камин зүүх ( kamin züüh )
Norman: cheunm'née f ( Jersey ) , chim'naïe f ( Guernsey ) , chimnee f ( Sark ) , chouque dé chimenaée ( continental Normandy )
Norwegian: pipe (no) f skorstein m
Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
Persian: دودکش (fa) ( dudkeš )
Polish: komin (pl) m
Portuguese: chaminé (pt) f
Romanian: coș (ro) n horn (ro) n cămin (ro) n fumar (ro) n
Russian: труба́ (ru) f ( trubá ) , дымохо́д (ru) m ( dymoxód ) , дымова́я труба́ f ( dymovája trubá )
Scots: lum
Scottish Gaelic: similear m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ди̑мња̄к m о̀џак m
Roman: dȋmnjāk (sh) m òdžak (sh) m
Skolt Sami: truuba reä´ppen
Slovak: komín m
Slovene: dimnik (sl) m
Spanish: chimenea (es) f
Swedish: skorsten (sv) c
Tajik: дудбаро (tg) ( dudbaro ) , дудкаш ( dudkaš )
Tamil: புகைப்போக்கி (ta) ( pukaippōkki )
Thai: ปล่อง ( bplòng ) , ปล่องควัน ( bplòng kwan ) , ปล่องไฟ ( bplòng fai )
Turkish: baca (tr)
Turkmen: truba
Tuvan: хоолай ( hoolay ) , ыш үндүрер хоолай ( ıš ündürär hoolay )
Ukrainian: димова́ труба́ f ( dymová trubá ) , димохі́д m ( dymoxíd )
Urdu: چمنی f ( cimnī )
Uzbek: moʻri (uz) , truba (uz)
Venetian: camin m
Vietnamese: ống khói (vi)
Volapük: cim (vo)
Welsh: ffynnel
Westrobothnian: mur m
Yiddish: קוימען ( koymen )
Zazaki: locın
glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp
UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive
narrow cleft in a rock face
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chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys present participle chimneying simple past and past participle chimneyed
( climbing ) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage ) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.
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