cashmere

See also: Cashmere

English

Etymology

Appellativisation of Cashmere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæʃ.mɪə/, /kæʃˈmɪə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kæʒˈmiɹ/, /ˈkæʒ.miɹ/, /ˈkæʃ.miɹ/, /kæʃˈmiɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

cashmere (usually uncountable, plural cashmeres)

1. (chiefly uncountable) Fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat.

   Hypernym: goathair

2. (chiefly uncountable) A soft fabric made of this wool.

   a cashmere sweater

3. (countable) A rich kind of shawl made from this wool.
4. (countable, by extension) Any similar shawl.

Derived terms

• cashmered
• cashmerette
• royal cashmere

 

Translations

fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat

• Bulgarian: кашмирска вълна f (kašmirska vǎlna)
• Catalan: caixmir m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 茄士咩 (ke¹ si⁶ me¹)

  Mandarin: 開司米／开司米 (zh) (kāisīmǐ)

• Danish: cashmereuld c
• Finnish: pashminavilla, kašmirvilla (fi)
• French: cachemire (fr)
• Hindi: काश्मीरा (hi) m (kāśmīrā)
• Hungarian: kasmír (hu)
• Italian: cachemire m
• Japanese: カシミヤ (kashimiya)
• Kalmyk: кашмр (kaşmr)
• Mongolian: ямааны ноолуур (jamaany nooluur)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kasjmir m

  Nynorsk: kasjmir m

• Polish: kaszmir (pl) m
• Portuguese: casimira (pt) f, caxemira (pt)
• Russian: кашеми́р (ru) m (kašemír)
• Spanish: cachemira (es) f
• Swedish: kashmir (sv) n or c, kaschmir (sv) n or c
• Turkish: kaşmir (tr)

soft fabric made of wool

• Afrikaans: kasjmier, kassemier
• Bulgarian: кашмир m (kašmir)
• Catalan: caixmir m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 茄士咩 (ke¹ si⁶ me¹)

  Mandarin: 開司米／开司米 (zh) (kāisīmǐ)

• Finnish: kašmirvilla (fi)
• French: cachemire (fr) m
• Greek: κασμίρι (el) n (kasmíri)
• Hindi: काश्मीरा (hi) m (kāśmīrā)
• Hungarian: kasmír (hu)
• Japanese: カシミヤ (kashimiya)
• Kalmyk: кашмр (kaşmr)
• Mongolian: ноолууран эдлэл (nooluuran edlel), ноолууран даавуу (nooluuran daavuu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kasjmir m

  Nynorsk: kasjmir m

• Polish: kaszmir (pl) m
• Russian: кашеми́р (ru) m (kašemír)
• Turkish: kaşmir (tr)

a shawl made from cashmere

• Afrikaans: kasjmiersjall

See also

• pashmina

Anagrams

• Marchese, search me, machrees, marchese, Remaches, macheers

French

Noun

cashmere m (plural cashmeres)

1. Alternative spelling of cachemire