chalet

See also: châlet

English

Chalet in Switzerland

Alternative forms

• châlet

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃæleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

• Audio (US):

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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^[1], 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^[2], 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

type of wooden house

• Arabic: شاليه (ŝālé)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小屋 (zh) (xiǎowū)

• Czech: chata (cs) f
• Esperanto: ĉaledo
• Finnish: alppimaja (fi), alppitalo
• French: chalet (fr) m
• German: Chalet (de) n
• Hungarian: faház (hu), bungaló (hu), nyaraló (hu), nyári lak, alpesi ház(ikó)
• Ido: kabano montala
• Italian: chalet (it) m
• Japanese: シャレー (sharē)
• Malay: chalet
• Mòcheno: schutzhitt f
• Polish: koliba (pl) f, chata (pl) f
• Portuguese: chalé (pt) m
• Romanian: cabană (ro) f
• Russian: шале́ (ru) n (šalé)
• Slovak: koliba
• Spanish: chalé (es) m
• Turkish: şale (tr)

Further reading

• chalet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Thecla, elatch, laceth, letcha, thecal

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/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

1. 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)

1. (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^(key): ^*/ʃaˈle/^*
• Rhymes: -e

Noun

chalet m (invariable)

1. chalet

Anagrams

• talché

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.

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