different between chaplet vs chalet

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t?æpl?t/, /?t?æpl?t/

Etymology 1

From Old French chapelet.

Noun

chaplet (plural chaplets)

1. A garland or circlet for the head.
2. A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
3. (archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
4. (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
   1. (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.

5. A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
6. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
7. A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
8. A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

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9. Alternative form of chapelet

Derived terms

• chapleted

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

chaplet (plural chaplets)

1. A small chapel or shrine.

Anagrams

• Pelchat, placeth

English

Alternative forms

• châlet

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æle?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

chalet (plural chalets)

1. An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves. [from late 18th c.]

Translations

Further reading

• chalet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Thecla, elatch, laceth, letcha, thecal

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

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

1. chalet

Descendants

• ? English: chalet
• ? Hijazi Arabic: ?????? (šal?)
• ? Portuguese: chalé
• ? Spanish: chalé, chalet

Further reading

• “chalet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• léchât

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French chalet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?le/

Noun

chalet m (invariable)

1. chalet

Anagrams

• talché

Latin

Verb

chalet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of chal?

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English chalet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ale/
• Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e

Noun

chalet

1. chalet (wooden house)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??a?le/, [t??a?le]

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

1. cottage, chalet

   Synonym: chalé

Related terms

• casilla

Further reading

• “chalet” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.