shampoo
Syllables: sham·poo/ʃæmˈpuː/
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India/ˈʃæːm.puː/
shampoo noun: a traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
Noun
shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)
- A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
- Synonyms:
- massage
- A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.
- 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.2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
- I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.
- Synonyms:
- shampooing
- Champagne.
Verb
shampoo (third-person singular simple present shampoos, present participle shampooing, simple past and past participle shampooed)
- To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
- My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.
- You then apply the conditioner mix to shampooed hair, from root to tip, and after 10 minutes, rinse out as normal.2021 November 6, Sali Hughes, “Colour me impressed: a brilliant new eco hair dye has hit the shelves”, in The Guardian
- To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
- 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...2010, Rudyard Kipling with James Daley, comp., “The Maltese Cat”, in Great Horse Stories, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 95
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- massage
shampoo meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
shampoo in Hindi
- product for washing the hair or other fibres
- शैंपू śaimpū
- to wash one's own hair with shampoo
- चाँपना cā̃pnā
shampoo in Tamil
- சீயநெய், நுரைமக் கழுவி, முடிக்கழுவி, சிகைகழுவி, மயிர்நீவி, குளியல் குழம்பு
shampoo in Marathi
- product for washing the hair or other fibres
- शाम्पू śāmpū, शॅम्पू śĕmpū
shampoo in Urdu
- product for washing the hair or other fibres
- شَیمْپُو śaimpū
More languagesFewer languages
- shampoo in Bengali
- শ্যাম্পু śêmpu
- shampoo in Telugu
- షాంపూ ṣāmpū
- shampoo in Malayalam
- ഷാംപൂ, ഷാംപൂ ചെയ്യുക, ഷാംപൂ ചെയ്യാൻ
- shampoo in Kannada
- ತೊಳೆ
- shampoo in Punjabi
- ਸ਼ੈਂਪੂ, ਸ਼ੈਂਪੂ ਕਰੋ, ਸ਼ੈਂਪੂ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- shampoo in Gujarati
- શેમ્પૂ śempū
- shampoo in Odia
- ସାମ୍ପୁ, ଶାମ୍ପୁ, ସାମ୍ପୁ କରନ୍ତୁ
- shampoo in Sanskrit
- केशमार्जक keśamārjaka
- shampoo in Sinhala
- ෂැම්පු ṣæmpu
- shampoo in Nepali
- श्याम्पू, शैम्पू, स्याम्पू
- shampoo in Tagalog
- siyampu
- shampoo in Arabic
- شَامْبُو šāmbū
- shampoo in Malay
- syampu
- shampoo in Indonesian
- sampo
- shampoo in Thai
- แชมพู chɛm-puu, ยาสระผม yaa-sà-pǒm, สระผม sà-pǒm
- shampoo in Vietnamese
- dầu gội đầu, xà bông, dầu gội
- shampoo in Myanmar
- ခေါင်းလျှော်ရည် hkaung:hlyaurany
Examples of shampoo in a sentence
- After convincing people to shampoo once monthly and tan with nasal spray, it now has users asking: Is sunscreen bad for you?2024 June 21, Danielle Sinay, “Is Sunscreen Bad for You? TikTok’s Anti-SPF Movement, Explained”, in Glamour:
- 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.2010, Rudyard Kipling with James Daley, comp., “The Maltese Cat”, in Great Horse Stories, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 95:
Synonyms of shampoo
Forms of shampoo
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | shampoos |
| alternative form (obsolete) | champoo |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | shampoos |
| present participle | shampooing |
| past participle | shampooed |
| past | shampooed |
Origin of shampoo
From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), mid 18th c.
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Questions about shampoo
- What does shampoo mean?
- Shampoo means a traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
- What is shampoo in Hindi?
- Shampoo in Hindi is शैंपू (śaimpū), चाँपना (cā̃pnā). See Shampoo meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use shampoo in a sentence?
- After convincing people to shampoo once monthly and tan with nasal spray, it now has users asking: Is sunscreen bad for you?
- What part of speech is shampoo?
- Shampoo can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce shampoo?
- Shampoo is pronounced /ʃæmˈpuː/.
- What is the plural of shampoo?
- The plural of shampoo is shampoos.
Words near shampoo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shampoo (page history and authors); shampoo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); షాంపూ (Telugu) (page history and authors); shampoo (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shampoo (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shampoo (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); શેમ્પૂ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); shampoo (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shampoo (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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