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”). Doublet of chimenea.

Pronunciation

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• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɪmni/, (proscribed) /ˈtʃɪməni/

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.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:

     Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths.

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.
5. (vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.
6. (Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.

Derived terms

• 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 (af)
• Albanian: oxhak (sq) m
• Arabic: مَدْخَنَة‎ f (madḵana)
• Armenian: ծխնելույզ (hy) (cxneluyz)
• Asturian: chimenea (ast) 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
• Cherokee: ᎠᎱᏣᏬᎳᏛᎢ (ahutsawoladvi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙筒 (yāntong), 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 (et)
• 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, troneira 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: καπνοδόκη f (kapnodókē), 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), kéménycső, kéménykürtő
• 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 (çıqqıç)
• 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
• Malayalam: ചിമ്മിനി (ml) (cimmini), പുകക്കുഴൽ (ml) (pukakkuḻal)
• Manchu: ᡥᡡᠯᠠᠨ (hūlan)
• Manipuri: ꯃꯩꯈꯨꯊꯣꯡ (meikhuthong)
• Maori: timera, putaauahi, tumera
• Mongolian: камин зүүх (kamin züükh), яндан (mn) (yandan)
• 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, dymnik
• 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
• Tagalog: pausukan
• 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 (xoolay), ыш үндүрер хоолай (ış ündürer xoolay)
• Ukrainian: димова́ труба́ f (dymová trubá), димохі́д m (dymoxíd)
• Urdu: چمنی‎ f (cimnī)
• Uzbek: moʻri (uz), truba (uz)
• Venetian: camin (vec) m
• Vietnamese: ống khói (vi)
• Volapük: cim (vo)
• Welsh: ffynnel
• Westrobothnian: mur m
• Yiddish: קוימען‎ (koymen)
• Zazaki: loce

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
• Hungarian: olajlámpaüveg, lámpaüveg (hu), cilinder (hu)
• 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
• Hebrew: מַעֲשֵׁנָה‎ (he) f (ma'ashenah)
• 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)

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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