# chauffeur
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French chauffeur.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ʃɒˈfɜː/, /ˈʃəʊfə/
* (General American) IPA: /ʃoʊˈfɝ/, /ˈʃoʊfɚ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: shofar (some pronunciations of both words)
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

### Noun

chauffeur (plural chauffeurs)
* A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
** 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.
** 1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy‎ (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this 50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
* (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.
    Synonym: engineer

#### Usage notes

As the French word chauffeur has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.

#### Hypernyms

* (both senses): driver

#### Derived terms

* chauffeur driver (synonym)
* chauffeuress
* chauffeurless
* chauffeurship

#### Translations
### Verb

chauffeur (third-person singular simple present chauffeurs, present participle chauffeuring, simple past and past participle chauffeured)
* (intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
* (transitive) To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.
    Synonyms: transport, bring, shuttle

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French chauffeur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃoːˈføːr/, /ʃɑu̯ˈføːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: chauf‧feur
* Rhymes: -øːr

### Noun

chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, diminutive chauffeurtje n, feminine chauffeuse)
* driver (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus; usually to transport others or in a professional capacity, often both)

#### Derived terms

* buschauffeur
* camionchauffeur
* taxichauffeur
* vrachtwagenchauffeur

#### Descendants

* → Aukan: safeli
* → Caribbean Javanese: sopir
* → Indonesian: sopir
* → Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦥꦶꦂ (sopir)
* → West Frisian: sjauffeur

## French
### Etymology

From chauffer (“to warm up”) +‎ -eur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃo.fœʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -œʁ

### Noun

chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse or chauffeure)
* (rail transport) stoker; fireman
* driver
    chauffeur de taxitaxi driver
* chauffeur (private driver)

#### Derived terms

* chauffard

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: xofer, xòfer
* → Czech: šofér
* → Danish: chauffør
* → Dutch: chauffeur
** → Aukan: safeli
** → Caribbean Javanese: sopir
** → Indonesian: sopir
** → Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦥꦶꦂ (sopir)
** → West Frisian: sjauffeur
* → English: chauffeur
* ⇒ Esperanto: ŝoforo
* → German: Chauffeur
* → Hungarian: sofőr
* → Javanese: (New Caledonian) chauffeur
* → Ladino: shofer, shofor
* → Lingala: sofɛ́lɛ
* → Moroccan Arabic: شيفور
* → Norwegian: sjåfør
* → Persian: شوفر (šufer)
* → Polish: szofer
* → Portuguese: chofer, chauffeur
* → Romanian: șofer
* → Russian: шофёр (šofjór)
* → Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m
* → Spanish: chofer
* → Swedish: chaufför
* → Thai: โชเฟอร์ (choo-fə̂ə)
* → Turkish: şoför

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Noun

chauffeur m or f by sense (plural chauffeurs or chauffeur)
* Alternative form of chofer