shampoo

See also: Shampoo

English

Alternative forms

• champoo (dated)

Etymology

From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), from the Sanskrit verb चपयति (capayati, “to pound, knead”), mid 18th c.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃæmˈpuː/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃamˈpuː/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: sham‧poo

Noun

shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)

1. (originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.

   Synonym: massage

2. A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.

   Coordinate term: conditioner

3. An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.

   Synonym: shampooing

   I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.

4. (humorous, slang) Champagne.

   Synonyms: bubbly, champers, fizz

Descendants

• → Basque: xanpu
• → Catalan: xampú
• ⇒ Chinese: 香波 (xiāngbō)
• → Danish: shampoo
• → Dutch: shampoo
• → Galician: xampú
• → German: Shampoo
  • → Estonian: šampoon
  • → Hungarian: sampon
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ша̀мпо̄н

    Latin: šàmpōn

• → Faroese: sjampo
• → Finnish: shampoo, sampoo, šampoo
• → French: shampooing, shampoing
  • → Romanian: șampon
  • → Turkish: şampuan
• → Hebrew: שַׁמְפּוּ‎ (shampú), שַׁמְפּוֹ‎ (shampó)
• → Hindi: शैंपू (śaimpū)
• → Icelandic: sjampó
• → Irish: seampú
• → Italian: shampoo, sciampo
• → Japanese: シャンプー (shanpū)
• → Korean: 샴푸 (syampu)
• → Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjampo

  Nynorsk: sjampo

• → Portuguese: champô, shampoo, xampu
  • → Hunsrik: Schampu
• → Russian: шампу́нь (šampúnʹ)
• → Spanish: champú, shampoo, yampú
• → Swedish: schampo
• → Thai: แชมพู (chɛɛm-puu)
• → Zulu: ishampu

Translations

massage

product for washing the hair or other fibres

• Albanian: shampo f
• Arabic: شَامْبُو‎ m (šāmbū)

  Hijazi Arabic: شامبو‎ m (šāmbu), شامپو‎ m (šāmpu)

  Moroccan Arabic: شمبوان‎ (šampwān), شنبوان‎ (šanpwān)

• Armenian: շամպուն (hy) (šampun)
• Azerbaijani: şampun
• Basque: xanpu
• Belarusian: шампу́нь m (šampúnʹ)
• Bengali: শ্যাম্পু (śjampu)
• Bulgarian: шампоа́н (bg) m (šampoán)
• Burmese: ခေါင်းလျှော်ရည် (my) (hkaung:hlyaurany)
• Catalan: xampú (ca) m
• Chickasaw: ishtayili'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 洗頭水, 洗头水 (sai² tau⁴ seoi²), 洗髮水, 洗发水 (sai² faat³ seoi²), 洗髮精, 洗发精 (sai² faat³ zing¹)

  Mandarin: 洗髮水 (zh), 洗发水 (zh) (xǐfàshuǐ), 洗髮精, 洗发精 (xǐfàjīng), 洗髮劑 (zh), 洗发剂 (zh) (xǐfàjì), 香波 (zh) (xiāngbō) (loanword), 洗髮露 (zh), 洗发露 (zh) (xǐfàlù, xǐfǎlù)

  Min Nan: 洗髮精 (zh-min-nan), 洗发精 (sé-hoat-cheng, sóe-hoat-cheng)

• Czech: šampón m
• Danish: shampoo (da) c
• Dutch: shampoo (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝampuo (eo)
• Estonian: šampoon (et)
• Faroese: hársápa f, sjampo n
• Finnish: shampoo (fi), sampoo (fi), hiustenpesuaine (fi)
• French: shampoing (fr) m, shampooing (fr) m
• Galician: xampú m
• Georgian: შამპუნი (šamṗuni)
• German: Shampoo (de) n, Schampu n, Schampon n, Schampun (de) n, Haarwaschmittel n
• Greek: σαμπουάν (el) n (sampouán)
• Hebrew: שַׁמְפּוּ‎ (he) m (shampu)
• Hindi: शैंपू m (śaimpū)
• Hungarian: sampon (hu)
• Hunsrik: Schampu n
• Icelandic: sjampó (is) n
• Indonesian: sampo (id)
• Irish: seampú m
• Italian: sciampo (it) m
• Japanese: シャンプー (ja) (shanpū)
• Kazakh: сусабын (swsabın)
• Khmer: ថ្នាំកក់ (thnam kɑk), សាប៊ូកក់សក់ (saabuu kɑk sɑk)
• Korean: 샴푸 (ko) (syampu)

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شامپۆ‎ (ku) (şampo)

  Northern Kurdish: şampo (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: суусамын (suusamın), шампунь (şampunʹ)
• Lao: ນ້ຳຍາສະຜົມ (nam nyā sa phom)
• Latvian: šampūns m
• Lithuanian: šampūnas m
• Luxembourgish: Shampoing m
• Macedonian: шампо́н m (šampón)
• Malay: syampu
• Maltese: xampù m
• Marathi: शाम्पू m (śāmpū), शॅम्पू m (śĕmpū)
• Mongolian: шампунь (shampuni)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjampo (no) m

• Persian: شامپو‎ (fa) (šâmpu)
• Polish: szampon (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) xampu (pt) m, (Portugal) champô (pt) m
• Romanian: șampon (ro) n
• Russian: шампу́нь (ru) m (šampúnʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шампон m

  Roman: šampon (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ෂැම්පු (ṣæmpu)
• Slovak: šampón m
• Slovene: šampon (sl) m
• Spanish: champú (es) m
• Swedish: schampo (sv) n
• Tagalog: siyampu
• Tajik: шампун (šampun)
• Thai: แชมพู (th) (chɛɛm-puu), ยาสระผม (th) (yaa-sà-pǒm)
• Turkish: şampuan (tr)
• Turkmen: şampun
• Ukrainian: шампу́нь m (šampúnʹ)
• Urdu: شیمپو‎ m (śaimpū)
• Uzbek: shampun (uz)
• Vietnamese: dầu gội đầu, xà bông (vi)
• Volapük: jämpod
• Welsh: siampŵ m
• Yiddish: שאַמפּו‎ m (shampu)

instance of washing the hair with shampoo

• Apache:

  Western Apache: nitsii ’ghá-í táôâ’ee’â

• Finnish: hiustenpesu
• French: shampoing (fr) m
• German: Haarwäsche f
• Greek: λούσιμο (el) n (loúsimo)

• Macedonian: шампони́рање n (šamponíranje)
• Romanian: șamponare f
• Swedish: schamponering c
• Turkish: şampuan (tr)

instance of washing other fibres with shampoo

• Finnish: vaahtopesu
• French: shampoing (fr) m

• Swedish: schamponering c

humorous slang: champagne

• Finnish: skumppa (fi), samppis, samppakalja (fi)
• German: Schampus (de) m

• Russian: шампу́нь (ru) m (šampúnʹ) (colloquial), шампу́сик (ru) m (šampúsik) (colloquial, humorous)

Verb

shampoo (third-person singular simple present shampoos, present participle shampooing, simple past and past participle shampooed)

1. (intransitive) To wash one's own hair with shampoo.

   My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.

2. (transitive) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
3. (transitive) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.

   Synonym: massage

Translations

to wash hair with shampoo

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗頭 (zh), 洗头 (zh) (xǐtóu)

• Dutch: shampooën (nl), shamponeren
• Esperanto: ŝampui
• Finnish: pestä shampoolla; shamponoida (to spread the shampoo and rub it in)
• French: shampouiner (fr)
• German: schamponieren

• Greek: λούζω (el) (loúzo)
• Hungarian: samponoz
• Lao: ສະຜົມ (sa phom)
• Macedonian: шампони́ра impf or pf (šamponíra)
• Swedish: schamponera (sv)
• Thai: สระผม (sà-pǒm)
• Turkish: şampuanlamak (tr)

to wash (the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo

• Finnish: pestä shampoolla
• German: schampunieren, schamponieren, shampoonieren (de), das Haar waschen, den Kopf waschen, den Teppich schampunieren

• Swedish: schamponera (sv)
• Volapük: jämpodön

Further reading

• shampoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “shampoo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• oompahs

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shampoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjampo/, /ˈsjaːmpu(ː)/, [ˈɕɑmpʰo], [ˈɕæːmpʰu(ː)]

Noun

shampoo c (singular definite shampooen, plural indefinite shampooer)

1. shampoo (soap for washing hair)

Declension

Declension of shampoo

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	shampoo	shampooen	shampooer	shampooerne
genitive	shampoos	shampooens	shampooers	shampooernes

Derived terms

• hårshampoo
• skælshampoo

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shampoo, from Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑm.poː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sham‧poo

Noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos, diminutive shampootje n)

1. shampoo (product for washing hair)

Derived terms

• shampooën
• babyshampoo

Descendants

• → Indonesian: sampo

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• šampoo
• sampoo

Etymology

Borrowed from English shampoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑmp(ː)oː/, [ˈʃɑmp(ː)o̞ː]
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmp(ː)oː/, [ˈs̠ɑmp(ː)o̞ː]
• IPA^(key): /ˈshɑmp(ː)oː/, [ˈs̠hɑmp(ː)o̞ː]
• Rhymes: -ɑmpoː
• Syllabification: sham‧poo

Noun

shampoo

1. shampoo (commercial liquid soap)

Declension

Inflection of shampoo (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation)
nominative		shampoo	shampoot
genitive		shampoon	shampoiden shampoitten
partitive		shampoota	shampoita
illative		shampoohon shampooseen	shampoihin shampoisiin
		singular	plural
nominative		shampoo	shampoot
accusative	nom.	shampoo	shampoot
	gen.	shampoon
genitive		shampoon	shampoiden shampoitten
partitive		shampoota	shampoita
inessive		shampoossa	shampoissa
elative		shampoosta	shampoista
illative		shampoohon shampooseen	shampoihin shampoisiin
adessive		shampoolla	shampoilla
ablative		shampoolta	shampoilta
allative		shampoolle	shampoille
essive		shampoona	shampoina
translative		shampooksi	shampoiksi
instructive		—	shampoin
abessive		shampootta	shampoitta
comitative		—	shampoineen

Possessive forms of shampoo (type filee)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	shampooni	shampoomme
2nd person	shampoosi	shampoonne
3rd person	shampoonsa

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Italian

Alternative forms

• sciampo

Etymology

Borrowed from English shampoo, from Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po, “knead!”), from the Sanskrit root चपयति (capayati, “to pound, to knead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃam.po/
• Rhymes: -ampo
• Hyphenation: shàm‧poo

Noun

shampoo m (invariable)

1. shampoo (detergent, washing of hair with such detergent)

Derived terms

• dopo-shampoo
• shampista

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English shampoo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

Noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

1. Alternative spelling of xampu; Alternative spelling of champô

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃamˈpu/, [ʃãmˈpu]

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃamˈpu/, [t͡ʃãmˈpu]

Noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

1. Alternative spelling of champú

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.