chalet

• châlet

Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃæleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

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chalet (plural chalets)

1. An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves. [from late 18th c.]
   • 2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, page 62:

     Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

   • 2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (17:20 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎^[2], season 5, episode 9, spoken by The Guide (Kristen Schaal):

     “I know that Perdita spends the offseason at her chalet in Gstaad, and that her mansion would be empty. And the perfect place to teach you all a valuable lesson about the importance of being nice to people who maybe aren't part of your core group but who have done a lot of nice things for you and yet you still treat them like shit.”

2. (Singapore) A recreational lodge or small house within the grounds of a country club, resort, clubhouse or other recreational space, used for events, staycations and social gatherings.

• chalet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Thecla, elatch, laceth, letcha, thecal

chalet

1. eel

Swiss French, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”), from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel (“farmhouse”), from Late Latin casalis (“house-like, house-related”), from Latin casa (“house”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.lɛ/

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chalet m (plural chalets)

1. chalet

• → English: chalet
• → Hijazi Arabic: شاليه (šalē)
• → Polish: szalet
• → Portuguese: chalé
• → Spanish: chalé, chalet

• “chalet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• léchât

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”), from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel (“farmhouse”), from Late Latin casalis (“house-like, house-related”), from Latin casa (“house”).

chalet (plural chalet-chalet)

1. (architecture) chalet: an alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves

• “chalet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet.

• IPA^(key): ^*/ʃaˈle/^*
• Rhymes: -e

chalet m (invariable)

1. chalet

• talché

chalet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of chalō

Borrowed from English chalet.

• IPA^(key): /ʃale/
• Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e

chalet

1. chalet (wooden house)

• chalé

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈle/ [t͡ʃaˈle]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: cha‧let

chalet m (plural chalets)

1. cottage, chalet

   Synonym: ranchería

• 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.

• “chalet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024