shampoo

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
2. (countable, uncountable) A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.
3. (countable, uncountable) An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
4. (countable, humorous, slang, uncountable) Champagne.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
2. (transitive) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
3. (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.

Synonyms

wash

🧽

cleanse

massage

💆

rinsing

detergent

pomade

rinse

wash with soap

bath

🛀

cleaser

bathe

champagne

🍾

cleansing

Translations

shampooing

champú

Shampoo

shampoing

xampu

shampoo

sciampo

shampoo

Haarwaschmittel

şampuan

σαμπουάν

xampú

Haarwäsche

shampouiner

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃæmˈpuː/

Etymology

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