# chalet
## English
### Alternative forms

* châlet

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃæleɪ/
* Rhymes: -eɪ
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

chalet (plural chalets)
* 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, 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, 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.”

#### Translations
### Further reading

* chalet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Thecla, elatch, laceth, letcha, thecal

## Eastern Bontoc
### Noun

chalet
* eel

## French
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃa.lɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)
* chalet

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* léchât

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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”).

### Noun

chalet (plural chalet-chalet)
* (architecture) chalet: an alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves

### Further reading

* “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.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^*$/ʃaˈle/$^*$
* Rhymes: -e

### Noun

chalet m (invariable)
* chalet

### Anagrams

* talché

## Latin
### Verb

chalet
* third-person singular present active subjunctive of chalō

## Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from English chalet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃale/
* Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e

### Noun

chalet
* chalet (wooden house)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃaˈle/ [t͡ʃaˈle]
* Rhymes: -e

### Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)
* cottage, chalet
    Synonym: chalé

#### 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.

#### Related terms

* casilla

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10