chalet

See also: châlet

English

Chalet in Switzerland

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃæleɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • (file)

Noun

chalet (plural chalets)

  1. 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.

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Eastern Bontoc

Noun

chalet

  1. 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(key): /ʃa.lɛ/
  • (file)

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

  1. chalet

Descendants

  • English: chalet
  • Hijazi Arabic: شاليه (šalē)
  • Portuguese: chalé
  • Spanish: chalé, chalet

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ʃaˈle/*
  • Rhymes: -e

Noun

chalet m (invariable)

  1. chalet

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Latin

Verb

chalet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of chalō

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English chalet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃale/
  • Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e

Noun

chalet

  1. chalet (wooden house)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃaˈle/ [t͡ʃaˈle]
  • Rhymes: -e

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

  1. 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.

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