chambre

chambre (plural chambres)

1. Obsolete spelling of chamber

• valet-de-chambre

• becharm, chamber

From Latin camera.

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. room

From Old French chambre, cambre, from Latin cambra, Medieval spelling of Latin camera (“room”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover: a covered wagon, a covered boat, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of caméra, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃bʁ/

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chambre f (plural chambres)

1. a chamber in its various senses, including:
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     ...before a in French an original c has the sound sh, and is spelt ch, as in champ (campus), chambre (camera).

   1. a room.
   2. a hotel room.
   3. a bedroom.
   4. a house of a parliament.

• Antillean Creole: chanm
• Haitian Creole: chanm
• → Norman: chambre, chàmbre
• → Vietnamese: săm

• “chambre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, camara, from Ancient Greek κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ (kamárā).

• chaumbre, chaumber, chaumer, chamer, chamber

• (retention of schwa) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃaːmbrə/, /ˈtʃambrə/, /ˈtʃau̯mbrə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃaːmbər/, /ˈtʃambər/, /ˈtʃau̯mbər/

chambre (plural chambres)

1. room; chamber

• chambre forene

• English: chamber
• Scots: chaumer
  • → Scottish Gaelic: seòmar
• Yola: chaamer

• “chaumbre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

chambre

1. Alternative form of caumber

• chàmbre (Guernsey)

Borrowed from French chambre, from Old French chambre, from Latin camera.

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chambre f (plural chambres)

1. (Jersey) bedroom

• cambre, chanbre, canbre

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).

chambre f (oblique plural chambres, nominative singular chambre, nominative plural chambres)

1. room
2. chamber (of a building)
3. bedroom, sleeping quarters

• camberete (Old Northern French)
  • → Middle Dutch: cambret
    • → Middle French: cabaret
      • French: cabaret

• French: chambre
  • Antillean Creole: chanm
  • Haitian Creole: chanm
  • → Norman: chambre, chàmbre
  • → Vietnamese: săm
• → Irish: seomra
• → Middle Armenian: ջամբռ (ǰambṙ)
• → Middle English: chambre, chaumbre, chaumber, chaumer, chamer, chamber
  • English: chamber
  • Scots: chaumer
    • → Scottish Gaelic: seòmar
  • Yola: chaamer