different between shambles vs abattoir

English

Etymology

From Old English s?amul. A borrowing from Vulgar Latin scamellum, scamillum (“little bench, ridge”), from Latin scamnum (“bench, ridge, breadth of a field”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æmbl?z/

Noun

shambles (plural shambles)

1. work done in a poor fashion
2. a scene of great disorder or ruin
3. a great mess or clutter

   This website is a shambles.

4. a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation
5. a slaughterhouse
6. (archaic) a butcher's shop

   • Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

     As to our city of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting […]

Derived terms

• omnishambles
• shambolic
• shambolism
• shambly

Translations

Verb

shambles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shamble

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.??tw??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æb.??tw??/, /?æb.??tw?/
• Hyphenation: ab?at?toir

Noun

abattoir (plural abattoirs)

1. A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19^th century.]

2. A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.

Translations

See also

• knacker's yard

References

Anagrams

• Baraitot

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French abattoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.ba??t?a?r/
• Hyphenation: abat?toir
• Rhymes: -a?r

Noun

abattoir n (plural abattoirs, diminutive abattoirtje n)

1. abattoir, slaughterhouse

Synonyms

• slachthuis, slachterij

French

Etymology

abattre +? -oir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.twa?/

Noun

abattoir m (plural abattoirs)

1. slaughterhouse; abattoir

Descendants

• ? Dutch: abattoir
• ? English: abattoir
• ? Moore: batoaare
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French abattoir (“abattoir, slaughterhouse”), from both abattre (“to butcher; slaughter for meat”), from Middle French abattre, from Old French abatre (“to knock over, destroy, slaughter”), from Vulgar Latin *abbatere, present active infinitive of *abbat?, *abbatu? (“I beat down, cast down”), from Latin battu? (“I beat, hit, pound, beat up”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to stab, dig”) + and from -oir, from Latin -orium or -oria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abat????r/
• Rhymes: -??r
• Hyphenation: a?batt?oi?ar

Noun

abattoir n (definite singular abattoiret, indefinite plural abattoirer, definite plural abattoira or abattoirene)

1. (concerning France) an abattoir (a public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.)

   Synonyms: slaktehus, slakteri

References

• “abattoir” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).