shampoo

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

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

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: sham‧poo

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

• → German: Shampoo
• → French: shampooing
• → Portuguese: champô
• → Russian: шампу́нь (šampúnʹ)
• → Spanish: shampoo, champú

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

• shampoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “shampoo” (US) / “shampoo” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

• oompahs

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑm.poː/

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• Hyphenation: sham‧poo

shampoo m (plural shampoos, diminutive shampootje n)

1. shampoo (product for washing hair)

• babyshampoo

• šampoo
• sampoo

Borrowed from English shampoo.

• Hyphenation: sham‧poo
• Rhymes: -oː
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑmpːoː/, [ˈʃɑmpːo̞ː], IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmpːoː/, [ˈs̠ɑmpːo̞ː]

shampoo

1. shampoo (commercial liquid soap)

• sciampo

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃampo/
• Hyphenation: shàm‧poo
• Rhymes: -ampo

shampoo m (invariable)

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

• dopo-shampoo
• shampista

Borrowed from English shampoo.

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

1. Alternative spelling of xampu

Borrowed from English shampoo.

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

1. Alternative spelling of champú