shampoo

Meanings

Noun

• A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
• A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.
• An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
• Champagne.

Verb

• To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
• To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
• To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.

Origin

• From Hindi चाँपो / चांपो, imperative form of चाँपना / चांपना, from the Sanskrit verb चपयति, mid