shampoo

• champoo (dated)

From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), mid 18th c.

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uː
• 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. (hygiene) A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.

   Coordinate terms: conditioner; bar soap; (idiomatically usually coordinate rather than hypernymous) liquid soap, soap

   • 2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.

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

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.

   • 2021 November 6, Sali Hughes, “Colour me impressed: a brilliant new eco hair dye has hit the shelves”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     You then apply the conditioner mix to shampooed hair, from root to tip, and after 10 minutes, rinse out as normal.

   • 2024 June 21, Danielle Sinay, “Is Sunscreen Bad for You? TikTok’s Anti-SPF Movement, Explained”, in Glamour‎^[3]:

     WellnessTok has done it again. After convincing people to shampoo once monthly and tan with nasal spray, it now has users asking: Is sunscreen bad for you?

2. (transitive) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
   • 2010, Rudyard Kipling with James Daley, comp., “The Maltese Cat”, in Great Horse Stories, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 95:

     Each pony had his sais, his groom, who lived and ate and slept with the animal, and had betted a good deal more than he could afford on the result of the game. There was no chance of anything going wrong, but to make sure, each sais was shampooing the legs of his pony to the last minute. Behind the saises sat as many of the Skidars' regiment as had leave to attend the match […]

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”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• oompahs

Borrowed from English shampoo.

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

shampoo c (singular definite shampooen, plural indefinite shampooer)

1. shampoo (soap for washing hair)

• hårshampoo
• skælshampoo

Borrowed from English shampoo, from Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po). In this instance, ⟨-oo⟩ is pronounced as /oː/ instead of /u/, and it is possibly a spelling pronunciation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑm.poː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sham‧poo

shampoo m (plural shampoos, diminutive shampootje n)

1. shampoo (product for washing hair)

• shampooën
• babyshampoo

• → Acehnese: sampô
• → Indonesian: sampo

• “shampoo” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• šampoo
• sampoo

Orthographic borrowing from English shampoo.

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

shampoo

1. shampoo (commercial liquid soap)

• “shampoo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• sciampo

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

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

shampoo m (invariable)

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

• dopo-shampoo
• shampista

Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

1. alternative form of xampu
2. alternative form of champô

The word was adapted to Brazilian Portuguese as xampu, reflecting the English pronunciation. The European Portuguese adaptation of champô is closer to the Hindi pronunciation.

Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.

• IPA^(key): /ʃamˈpu/ [ʃãmˈpu], /t͡ʃamˈpu/ [t͡ʃãmˈpu]
• Rhymes: -u

shampoo m (plural shampoos)

1. alternative spelling of champú

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.