# shampoo
## English
### Alternative forms

* champoo (dated)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ʃæmˈpuː/
* (UK) IPA: /ʃamˈpuː/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uː
* Hyphenation: sham‧poo

### Noun

shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)
* (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
* (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, →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.
* An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
    Synonym: shampooing
    I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.
* (humorous, slang) Champagne.
    Synonyms: bubbly, champers, fizz

#### Derived terms

* baby shampoo
* shampoo bowl
* shampoo ginger
* wood shampoo

#### Descendants

* → Basque: xanpu
* → Catalan: xampú
* ⇒ Chinese: 香波 (xiāngbō)
* → Danish: shampoo
* → Dutch: shampoo
** → Acehnese: sampô
** → Indonesian: sampo
* → Estonian: šampoon
* → Faroese: sjampo
* → Finnish: shampoo, sampoo, šampoo
* → French: shampooing, shampoing, champoing
** → Bulgarian: шампоан (šampoan)
** → Greek: σαμπουάν (sampouán)
** → Russian: шампунь (šampunʹ)
*** → Armenian: շամպուն (šampun)
*** → Azerbaijani: şampun
*** → Georgian: შამპუნი (šamṗuni)
*** → Lithuanian: šampūnas
** → Romanian: șampon
** → Turkish: şampuan
* → Galician: xampú
* → German: Shampoo
** → Czech: šampón
** → Hungarian: sampon
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ша̀мпо̄н
    Latin script: šàmpōn
** → Slovak: šampón
* → Hebrew: שַׁמְפּוּ (shampú), שַׁמְפּוֹ (shampó)
* → Hindi: शैंपू (śaimpū)
* → Icelandic: sjampó
* → Irish: seampú
* → Italian: shampoo, sciampo
* → Japanese: シャンプー (shanpū)
* → Korean: 샴푸 (syampu)
* → Norwegian:
    Bokmål: sjampo
    Nynorsk: sjampo
* → Portuguese: champô, xampu (Brazil), (unadapted form) shampoo
** → Hunsrik: Schampu
* → Spanish: champú, shampoo, yampú
* → Swedish: schampo
* → Thai: แชมพู (chɛɛm-puu)
* → Yiddish: שאַמפּו (shampu)
* → Zulu: ishampu

#### Translations
### Verb

shampoo (third-person singular simple present shampoos, present participle shampooing, simple past and past participle shampooed)
* (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: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: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?
* (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 […]
* (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

#### Translations
### Further reading

* shampoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “shampoo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* oompahs

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English shampoo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsjampo/, /ˈsjaːmpu(ː)/, [ˈɕɑmpʰo], [ˈɕæːmpʰu(ː)]

### Noun

shampoo c (singular definite shampooen, plural indefinite shampooer)
* shampoo (soap for washing hair)

#### Derived terms

* hårshampoo
* skælshampoo

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃɑm.poː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sham‧poo

### Noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos, diminutive shampootje n)
* shampoo (product for washing hair)

#### Derived terms

* shampooën
* babyshampoo

#### Descendants

* → Acehnese: sampô
* → Indonesian: sampo

### Further reading

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

## Finnish
### Alternative forms

* šampoo
* sampoo

### Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English shampoo.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

shampoo
* shampoo (commercial liquid soap)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of shampoo (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
shampooni
shampooni
accusative
nom.
shampooni
shampooni
gen.
shampooni
genitive
shampooni
shampoideni shampoitteni
partitive
shampootani
shampoitani
inessive
shampoossani
shampoissani
elative
shampoostani
shampoistani
illative
shampoohoni shampooseeni
shampoihini shampoisiini
adessive
shampoollani
shampoillani
ablative
shampooltani
shampoiltani
allative
shampoolleni
shampoilleni
essive
shampoonani
shampoinani
translative
shampookseni
shampoikseni
abessive
shampoottani
shampoittani
instructive
comitative
—shampoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
shampoosi
shampoosi
accusative
nom.
shampoosi
shampoosi
gen.
shampoosi
genitive
shampoosi
shampoidesi shampoittesi
partitive
shampootasi
shampoitasi
inessive
shampoossasi
shampoissasi
elative
shampoostasi
shampoistasi
illative
shampoohosi shampooseesi
shampoihisi shampoisiisi
adessive
shampoollasi
shampoillasi
ablative
shampooltasi
shampoiltasi
allative
shampoollesi
shampoillesi
essive
shampoonasi
shampoinasi
translative
shampooksesi
shampoiksesi
abessive
shampoottasi
shampoittasi
instructive
comitative
—shampoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
shampoomme
shampoomme
accusative
nom.
shampoomme
shampoomme
gen.
shampoomme
genitive
shampoomme
shampoidemme shampoittemme
partitive
shampootamme
shampoitamme
inessive
shampoossamme
shampoissamme
elative
shampoostamme
shampoistamme
illative
shampoohomme shampooseemme
shampoihimme shampoisiimme
adessive
shampoollamme
shampoillamme
ablative
shampooltamme
shampoiltamme
allative
shampoollemme
shampoillemme
essive
shampoonamme
shampoinamme
translative
shampooksemme
shampoiksemme
abessive
shampoottamme
shampoittamme
instructive
comitative
—shampoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
shampoonne
shampoonne
accusative
nom.
shampoonne
shampoonne
gen.
shampoonne
genitive
shampoonne
shampoidenne shampoittenne
partitive
shampootanne
shampoitanne
inessive
shampoossanne
shampoissanne
elative
shampoostanne
shampoistanne
illative
shampoohonne shampooseenne
shampoihinne shampoisiinne
adessive
shampoollanne
shampoillanne
ablative
shampooltanne
shampoiltanne
allative
shampoollenne
shampoillenne
essive
shampoonanne
shampoinanne
translative
shampooksenne
shampoiksenne
abessive
shampoottanne
shampoittanne
instructive
comitative
—shampoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
shampoonsa
shampoonsa
accusative
nom.
shampoonsa
shampoonsa
gen.
shampoonsa
genitive
shampoonsa
shampoidensa shampoittensa
partitive
shampootaan shampootansa
shampoitaan shampoitansa
inessive
shampoossaan shampoossansa
shampoissaan shampoissansa
elative
shampoostaan shampoostansa
shampoistaan shampoistansa
illative
shampoohonsa shampooseensa
shampoihinsa shampoisiinsa
adessive
shampoollaan shampoollansa
shampoillaan shampoillansa
ablative
shampooltaan shampooltansa
shampoiltaan shampoiltansa
allative
shampoolleen shampoollensa
shampoilleen shampoillensa
essive
shampoonaan shampoonansa
shampoinaan shampoinansa
translative
shampookseen shampooksensa
shampoikseen shampoiksensa
abessive
shampoottaan shampoottansa
shampoittaan shampoittansa
instructive
comitative
—shampoineen shampoinensa :

#### Derived terms

* autoshampoo
* hilseshampoo
* kuivashampoo
* lääkeshampoo
* munashampoo
* sävyteshampoo
* vauvashampoo
* yrttishampoo
* öljyshampoo

### Further reading

* “shampoo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* sciampo

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^*$/ˈʃam.po/
* Rhymes: -ampo
* Hyphenation: shàm‧poo

### Noun

shampoo m (invariable)
* shampoo (detergent, washing of hair with such detergent)

#### Derived terms

* dopo-shampoo
* shampista

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʃɐ̃ˈpu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʃɐ̃ˈpo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʃɐ̃ˈpo/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /t͡ʃɐ̃ˈpo/

### Noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos)
* Alternative form of xampu
* Alternative form of champô

#### Usage notes

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.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shampoo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃamˈpu/ [ʃãmˈpu], /t͡ʃamˈpu/ [t͡ʃãmˈpu]
* Rhymes: -u

### Noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos)
* Alternative spelling of champú

#### Usage notes

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.