chimney

See also: çhymney

English

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Etymology

Borrowing from Old French cheminee, from Latin caminus, from Ancient Greek κάμινος (kaminos, “furnace”).

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃɪmniː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɪmni/

Noun

chimney (plural chimneys)

1. 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.

2. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
3. (UK) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
4. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.

Derived terms

• chimney pot
• chimney stack
• chimney sweep
• chimney-money
• chimney-duty

Translations

vertical tube or hollow column; a flue

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مدخنة f (madxana)
• Armenian: ծխնելույզ (cxneluyz)
• Asturian: chimenea f
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: baca
• Belarusian: дымаход m (dymaxód), комін m (kómin)
• Bulgarian: комин (bg) m (komín)
• Catalan: xemeneia (ca) f
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙囪, 烟囱 (zh) (yāncōng)

• Czech: komín (cs) m
• Danish: skorsten c
• Dutch: schoorsteen (nl) m, schouw m
• Esperanto: kameno
• Faroese: skorsteinur m
• Finnish: savupiippu (fi)
• French: cheminée (fr) f
• Friulian: cjamin m, čhamìn m
• Galician: cheminea f, fumeira f
• German: Kamin (de) m, Esse (de) f, Schlot (de) m, Schornstein (de) m
• Greek: καπνοδόχος (el) f (kapnodóchos), καμινάδα (el) (kamináda)
• Gujarati: ધુમાડિયું (dhumāḍiyuṁ)
• Hungarian: kémény (hu), kürtő (hu)
• Icelandic: reykháfur (is) m, skorsteinn m, strompur m
• Italian: camino (it) m
• Japanese: 煙突 (ja) (えんとつ, entotsu), 煙出し (kemudashi), 煙り出し (kemuridashi)
• Jèrriais: cheunm'née f
• Korean: 굴뚝 (ko) (gulttuk)

• Latin: caminus
• Lithuanian: kaminas m
• Luxembourgish: Kamäin m
• Macedonian: оџак m (ódžak)
• Malay: serombong
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• 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), cămin (ro) n, fumar (ro) n
• Russian: труба (ru) f (trubá), дымоход (ru) m (dymoxód), дымовая труба f (dymovája trubá)
• Scots: lum
• Scottish Gaelic: similear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: димњак m, оџак m

  Roman: dimnjak m, odžak m

• Skolt Sami: truuba, reä´ppen
• Slovak: komín m
• Slovene: dimnik (sl) m
• Spanish: chimenea (es) f
• Swedish: skorsten (sv) c
• Tamil: புகைப்போக்கி (pukaippōkki)
• Turkish: baca (tr)
• Tuvan: хоолай (khoolaj), ыш үндүрер хоолай (yš ündürer khoolaj)
• Ukrainian: димова труба f (dymová trubá), димохід m (dymoxíd)
• Vietnamese: ống khói (vi)
• Volapük: cim (vo)

glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp

• Bulgarian: лампено шише (lampeno šiše)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玻璃燈罩, 玻璃灯罩 (bōlí dēngzhào)

• Czech: cylindr (cs) m
• Dutch: lampenkap (nl) f

• Finnish: öljylampun lasi, liekkilasi
• German: Kamin (de) m
• Italian: fumaiolo (it) m
• Russian: ламповое стекло n (lámpovoje stekló)
• Spanish: tubo (es) m

UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙囪, 烟囱 (zh) (yāncōng)

• Czech: komín (cs) m
• Dutch: schoorsteen (nl) m
• Finnish: savupiippu (fi)
• French: cheminée (fr) f
• German: Schlot (de) m

• Hungarian: kémény (hu)
• Icelandic: reykháfur (is) m, strompur m
• Italian: fumaiolo (it) m
• Norwegian: skorstein m
• Russian: труба (ru) f (trubá)
• Scots: lum
• Slovene: dimnik (sl) m

narrow cleft in a rock face

• Bulgarian: комин (bg) m (komín)
• Catalan: xemeneia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙囪, 烟囱裂口 (lièkǒu)

• Dutch: spleet (nl) f

• Finnish: kuilu
• German: Spalte (de) f, Schlot (de) m
• Italian: camino (it) m
• Russian: расщелина (ru) f (rasšélina)

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Translations to be checked

• Jèrriais: cheunm'née f
• Portuguese: chaminé f

• Spanish: chimenea f

Verb

chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed)

1. (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

See also

• cowl
• fireplace
• flaunching
• flue
• smokestack
• stove