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English

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): (file)

Noun

chalet (plural chalets)

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.
- 2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (17:20 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, 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.”
(Singapore) A recreational lodge or small house within the grounds of a resort or country club dedicated to the uniformed services, used for events, staycations and other social gatherings.

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, chalet (es) m
Turkish: şale (tr)

Anagrams

Thecla, elatch, laceth, letcha, thecal

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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”).