chamois

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• Received-Pronunciation, singular: /ˈʃæmwɑː/
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• plural: /ˈʃæmwɑːz/
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• Southern-England, singular: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Southern-England, plural: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• US, singular: /ʃæmˈwɑ/
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• plural: /ʃæmˈwɑ(z)/
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• singular: /ˈʃæmi/
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• plural: /ˈʃæmi(z)/
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• Received-Pronunciation, singular: /ˈʃæmi/
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• plural: /ˈʃæmiz/
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• Southern-England, plural: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• US, singular: /ˈʃæmi/
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• singular: /ʃæmˈwɑ/
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• plural: /ʃæmˈwɑz/
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• rhymes with -æmi
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʃæmwɑː/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʃæmi/
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Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kamoshë — goat-like antelope
• Aragonese: sarrio — goat-like antelope
• Armenian: այծյամ (aycyam) — goat-like antelope
• Asturian: robecu — goat-like antelope
• Azerbaijani: qarapaça — goat-like antelope
• Basque: sarrio — goat-like antelope
• Belarusian: са́рна (sárna) — goat-like antelope
• Breton: chamoez — goat-like antelope
• Bulgarian: дива коза — goat-like antelope
• Catalan: camussa — goat-like antelope
• Catalan: isard — goat-like antelope
• Chinese Mandarin: 臆羚 (yìlíng) — goat-like antelope
• Chinese Mandarin: 岩羚羊 (yánlíngyáng) — goat-like antelope
• Czech: kamzík — goat-like antelope
• Danish: gemse — goat-like antelope
• Dutch: gems — goat-like antelope
• Esperanto: ĉamo — goat-like antelope
• Estonian: mägikits — goat-like antelope
• Faroese: gemsa — goat-like antelope
• Finnish: gemssi — goat-like antelope
• French: chamois — goat-like antelope
• French: isard — goat-like antelope
• West-Frisian: gems — goat-like antelope
• Friulian: cjamoç — goat-like antelope
• Galician: rebezo — goat-like antelope
• Galician: camurza — goat-like antelope
• German: Gämse — goat-like antelope
• German: Gams — goat-like antelope
• German: Gemschi — goat-like antelope
• Greek: αγριόγιδο (agriógido) — goat-like antelope
• Greek: αγριοκάτσικο (agriokátsiko) — goat-like antelope
• Greek: αίγαγρος (aígagros) — goat-like antelope
• Hungarian: zerge — goat-like antelope
• Icelandic: gemsa — goat-like antelope
• Ido: chamo — goat-like antelope
• Irish: seamaí — goat-like antelope
• Italian: camoscio — goat-like antelope
• Italian: rupicapra — goat-like antelope
• Japanese: シャモア (shamoa) — goat-like antelope
• Japanese: カモシカ (kamojika) — goat-like antelope
• Ladin: ciamorc — goat-like antelope
• Lak: гьинта (hinta) — goat-like antelope
• Latin: ībex — goat-like antelope
• Latin: camox — goat-like antelope
• Lithuanian: gemzė — goat-like antelope
• Macedonian: дивокоза (divokoza) — goat-like antelope
• Maltese: kamoxx — goat-like antelope
• Māori: temera — goat-like antelope
• Mingrelian: ერსქემი (erskemi) — goat-like antelope
• Norwegian: gemse — goat-like antelope
• Occitan: camóç — goat-like antelope
• Occitan: isard — goat-like antelope
• Old English: firgengāt — goat-like antelope
• Polish: kozica — goat-like antelope
• Polish: giemza — goat-like antelope
• Portuguese: camurça — goat-like antelope
• Romanian: chamois — goat-like antelope
• Romanian: șamoa — goat-like antelope
• Romanian: capră-neagră — goat-like antelope
• Romanian: capră-de-munte — goat-like antelope
• Romansh: chamutsch — goat-like antelope
• Romansh: camutsch — goat-like antelope
• Romansh: tgamutsch — goat-like antelope
• Romansh: chamuotsch — goat-like antelope
• Russian: се́рна (sérna) — goat-like antelope
• Russian: чёрный козёл (čórnyj kozjól) — goat-like antelope
• Northern Sami: álpagáica — goat-like antelope
• Sardinian: camussa — goat-like antelope
• Sardinian: crabu aresti — goat-like antelope
• Sardinian: camùsciu — goat-like antelope
• Scottish Gaelic: somar — goat-like antelope
• Serbo-Croatian: дивокоза — goat-like antelope
• Serbo-Croatian: divokoza — goat-like antelope
• Slovak: kamzík horský — goat-like antelope
• Slovak: kamzík — goat-like antelope
• Slovene: gams — goat-like antelope
• Lower Sorbian: źiwa kóza — goat-like antelope
• Lower Sorbian: kamzyk — goat-like antelope
• Lower Sorbian: skalna kóza — goat-like antelope
• Upper Sorbian: kamzyk — goat-like antelope
• Upper Sorbian: gemsa — goat-like antelope
• Upper Sorbian: skalna koza — goat-like antelope
• Spanish: gamuza — goat-like antelope
• Spanish: rebeco — goat-like antelope
• Spanish: sarrio — goat-like antelope
• Swedish: gems — goat-like antelope
• Swedish: stenget — goat-like antelope
• Tagalog: gamusa — goat-like antelope
• Turkish: dağ keçisi — goat-like antelope
• Ukrainian: се́рна (sérna) — goat-like antelope
• Ukrainian: са́рна (sárna) — goat-like antelope
• Welsh: siami — goat-like antelope
• Welsh: gafrewig — goat-like antelope
• Albanian: kamosh — cloth
• Bulgarian: гюдерия (gjuderija) — cloth
• Chinese Mandarin: 沙穆瓦 (shāmùwǎ) — cloth
• Chinese Mandarin: 麂皮 (jǐpí) — cloth
• Chinese Mandarin: 麂皮革 (jǐpígé) — cloth
• Chinese Mandarin: 油鞣革 (yóuróugé) — cloth
• Finnish: säämiskä — cloth
• French: chamois — cloth
• German: Sämischleder — cloth
• Hungarian: szarvasbőr — cloth
• Ido: chamopelo — cloth
• Irish: seamaí — cloth
• Italian: camoscio — cloth
• Japanese: シャモア (shamoa) — cloth
• Norwegian Bokmål: pusseskinn — cloth
• Persian: کیمخت (kimoxt) — cloth
• Polish: giemza — cloth
• Russian: за́мша (zámša) — cloth
• Spanish: gamuza — cloth
• Tagalog: gamusa — cloth
• Turkish: güderi — cloth
• Ido: chamea — colour
• Italian: camoscio — colour
• Spanish: gamuza — colour