# chapel
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle.
(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US, Canada, General Australian) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/, [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ], [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æpəl

### Noun

chapel (plural chapels)
* (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
* A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
* A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
* (UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
* A printing office.
* A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

#### Derived terms

* antechapel
* apse chapel
* Chapel Allerton
* Chapel Brampton
* chapel cart
* Chapel Chorlton
* chapel de fer
* Chapel-en-le-Frith
* chapeler
* chapel-goer
* chapelgoer
* chapelgoing
* Chapel Lawn
* Chapel-le-Dale
* chapelless
* chapelman
* chapelmaster
* chapel of ease
* chapel of rest
* chapelry
* Chapeltown
* chapelward
* chapelwarden
* chapelwards
* closet-chapel
* father of chapel
* freechapel
* Heaton Chapel
* Holmes Chapel
* Lady chapel
* minichapel
* mother of chapel
* St John's Chapel
* Thomas Chapel

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: チャペル (chaperu)
* → Korean: 채플 (chaepeul)

#### Translations

Afrikaans: kapel
Albanian: vend falje, tempull (sq) m
Arabic: مُصَلًّى m (muṣallan), كَنِيسَة f (kanīsa)
Armenian: մատուռ (hy) (matuṙ)
Old Armenian: մատուռն (matuṙn)
Asturian: capiella (ast) f, capiya (ast) f
Azerbaijani: kapella, ibadətgah, musalla
Bashkir: ғибәҙәтхана (ğibəźətxana)
Belarusian: каплі́ца f (kaplíca)
Bengali: চ্যাপেল (cêpel), মুসল্লা (muśolla)
Bulgarian: пара́клис (bg) m (paráklis)
Catalan: capella (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 禮拜堂 / 礼拜堂 (lai$^5$ baai$^3$ tong$^4$)
Mandarin: 禮拜堂 / 礼拜堂 (zh) (lǐbàitáng)
Czech: kaple (cs) f
Danish: kapel (da) n
Dutch: kapel (nl) m or f
Egyptian: (kꜣr)
Esperanto: preĝejeto, kapelo
Estonian: kabel (et)
Etruscan: 𐌚𐌀𐌍𐌖 class inanimate (fanu), 𐌘𐌀𐌍𐌖 class inanimate (φanu), 𐌇𐌀𐌍𐌖 class inanimate (hanu)
Finnish: kappeli (fi), rukoushuone (fi), tsasouna (fi)
French: chapelle (fr) f
Friulian: capele f
Galician: capela (gl) f
Georgian: სამლოცველო (samlocvelo), კაპელა (ḳaṗela)
German: Kapelle (de) f
Greek: παρεκκλήσι (el) n (parekklísi), εξωκκλήσι (el) n (exokklísi)
Hebrew: קָפֶּלָה f (kapla)
Hindi: चैपल m (caipal), नमाज़गाह f (namāzgāh) (Islam), मुसल्ला (hi) m (musallā) (Islam)
Hungarian: kápolna (hu)
Icelandic: kapella (is) f
Indonesian: kapel (id), musala (id) (Islam)
Irish: séipéal (ga) m, teach pobail m
Italian: cappella (it) f, chiesetta f
Japanese: チャペル (ja) (chaperu), 礼拝堂 (ja) (らいはいどう, raihaidō, れいはいどう, reihaidō)
Kapampangan: bisitas, kapilya, tuklung
Kazakh: ғибадатхана (ğibadatxana)
Konkani: कोपेल (kopel)
Korean: 예배당(禮拜堂) (ko) (yebaedang), 례배당(禮拜堂) (ryebaedang) (North Korea), 채플 (chaepeul)
Kyrgyz: ибадаткана (ibadatkana)
Latin: sacellum n, aedicula (la) f, sacrārium n
Latvian: kapela f
Lithuanian: koplyčia (lt) f
Macedonian: параклис m (paraklis), капела f (kapela)
Malay: kapel, musala (ms) (Islam)
Maltese: kappella f
Middle English: chapele
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: жижиг сүм (žižig süm)
Norman: chapelle f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kapell (no) n
Nynorsk: kapell n
Occitan: capèla (oc) f
Pashto: مصله f (masala), مصلا f (mosalã)
Persian: نمازخانه (fa) (namâzxâne), مصلی (fa) (mosallâ), نمازگاه (namâzgâh)
Polish: kaplica (pl) f
Portuguese: capela (pt)
Romanian: capelă (ro) f
Russian: часо́вня (ru) f (časóvnja), капе́лла (ru) f (kapɛ́lla), капли́ца (ru) f (kaplíca) (Polish, Ukrainian or Belarusian chapel)
Sardinian: capedda f
Scottish Gaelic: caibeal
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: капе́ла f
Roman: kapéla (sh) f
Slovak: kaplnka f
Slovene: kapela (sl) f
Spanish: capilla (es) f
Swahili: chapeli
Swedish: kapell (sv) n
Tagalog: tuklong, kapilya
Tajik: намозхона (namozxona), мусалло (musallo), намазгоҳ (namazgoh)
Tatar: гыйбадәтханә (tt) (ğıybadätxanä)
Thai: โบสถ์น้อย, โบสถ์ (th) (bòot)
Turkish: küçük kilise, şapel (tr), musalla (tr)
Turkmen: ybadathana, musalla
Ukrainian: капли́ця (uk) f (kaplýcja)
Urdu: مصلی m (musallā), چیپل m (caipal), نمازگاہ f (namāzgāh)
Uyghur: ئىبادەتخانا (ibadetxana)
Uzbek: ibodatxona (uz), musallo
Venetan: capeła f, capela f, casada f
Vietnamese: nhà nguyện (vi)
Welsh: betws m, capel m :

### Adjective

chapel (not comparable)
* (Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
    The village butcher is chapel.

### Verb

chapel (third-person singular simple present chapels, present participle chapelling, simple past and past participle chapelled)
* (nautical, transitive) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
* (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
** 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!

### References

* ↑ Diarmaid MacCulloch (2010) A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 313:Martin [of Tours] was said to have torn his military cloak in half to clothe a poor man, who was later revealed to him as Christ himself. The cut down “little cloak”, cappella in Latin, later became one of the most prized possessions of the Frankish barbarian rulers who succeeded Roman governors in Gaul, and the series of small churches or temporary structures which sheltered this much-venerated relic were named after it: capellae.

### Anagrams

* Lepcha, cephal-, pleach

## Middle English
### Noun

chapel
* Alternative form of chapele

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* capel (northern)

### Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin cappellus, diminutive from Late Latin cappa.

### Noun

chapel oblique singular, m (oblique plural chapeaus or chapeax or chapiaus or chapiax or chapels, nominative singular chapeaus or chapeax or chapiaus or chapiax or chapels, nominative plural chapel)
* hat (item of clothing used to cover the head)

#### Related terms

* chape

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: chaipeâ
* Champenois: chaipé, chaipiau
* Franc-Comtois: tchaipé
* Gallo: chapai
* Middle French: chappeau
** French: chapeau (see there for further descendants)
** → English: chapeau
* Norman: capé, chapé
* Picard: capieu
* Walloon: tchapea

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈχapɛl/

### Noun

chapel
* aspirate mutation of capel