chimney

See also: çhymney

English

Alternative forms

• chimley, chimbley (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English chymeney, chymney, chymne, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camināta, from Latin caminus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”).

Pronunciation

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• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /tʃɪmni/, (proscribed) /tʃɪməni/

Noun

chimney (plural chimneys)

a chimney

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 hydrocarbon 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. (Britain) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
4. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.

Derived terms

Terms derived from chimney

• chimney-duty
• chimney-money

• chimney pot
• chimney stack

• chimney sweep

Translations

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
• Azerbaijani: 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
• Cebuano: simaniya
• 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
• Daur: xolly
• 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, chaminea f, fumeira f, parrumeira f, paraña f, tamboira 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.)

  Ancient Greek: κάπνη f (kápnē)

• 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, ciminiera (it) f
• 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, tumera
• 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
• Swahili: dohani
• Swedish: skorsten (sv) c
• Tajik: дудбаро (tg) (dudbaro), дудкаш (dudkaš)
• Tamil: புகைப்போக்கி (ta) (pukaippōkki)
• Thai: ปล่อง (th) (bplɔ̀ng), ปล่องควัน (bplɔ̀ng-kwan), ปล่องไฟ (bplɔ̀ng-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

• 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
• Georgian: კვამლსადენი (ḳvamlsadeni)

• German: Kamin (de) m
• Irish: gloine lampa f, simléar lampa m
• Italian: fumaiolo (it) m, bulbo (it) m
• Portuguese: manga (pt) f
• Russian: ла́мповое стекло́ n (lámpovoje stekló)
• Spanish: tubo (es) m

UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙囪 (zh), 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
• Maori: timera, putaauahi
• Norwegian: skorstein m
• Portuguese: chaminé (pt) f
• Russian: труба́ (ru) f (trubá)
• Scots: lum
• Slovene: dimnik (sl) m

narrow cleft in a rock face

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

  Mandarin: 煙囪 (zh), 烟囱裂口 (lièkǒu)

• Dutch: spleet (nl) f

• Finnish: kuilu (fi)
• German: Spalte (de) f, Schlot (de) m
• Italian: camino (it) m
• Portuguese: chaminé (pt) f
• Russian: расще́лина (ru) f (rasščélina)

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 Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} chimenea (es) f

Verb

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

1. (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

See also

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