chimney

See also: çhymney

English

chimney on Wikipedia

Alternative forms

chimley, chimbley (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English chymeney, chymney, chymne, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camīnāta, from Latin camīnus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪmni/, (proscribed) /ˈt͡ʃɪməni/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

chimney (plural chimneys or (archaic) chimnies)

A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
Synonym: (Northern England, Scotland) lum
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
  Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
  Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths.
The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
- 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 22:
  By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]
(British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
(vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.
(Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Bengali: চিমনি (cimoni)
→ Hindustani:
→ Hindi: चिमनी (cimnī)

→ Urdu: چِمْنی (cimnī)

Translations

vertical tube or hollow column; a flue

Abkhaz: ауаџьаҟ (awadžaqʼ)
Afrikaans: skoorsteen (af)
Albanian: oxhak (sq) m
Arabic: مَدْخَنَة f (madḵana)
Armenian: ծխնելույզ (hy) (cxneluyz)
Asturian: chimenea (ast) f
Avar: кӏкӏуйтӏала (kkʼujtʼala)
Azerbaijani: baca
Bashkir: мөрйә (möryə)
Basque: tximinia
Belarusian: дымахо́д m (dymaxód), ко́мін m (kómin)
Bengali: চিমনি (bn) (cimoni)
Bulgarian: коми́н (bg) m (komín)
Burmese: ခေါင်းတိုင် (my) (hkaung:tuing)
Catalan: xemeneia (ca) f
Cebuano: simaniya
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Cherokee: ᎠᎱᏣᏬᎳᏛᎢ (ahutsawoladvi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 煙筒／烟筒 (zh) (yāntong), 煙囪／烟囱 (zh) (yāncōng), 煙窗／烟窗 (zh) (yānchuāng)
Czech: komín (cs) m
Dalmatian: camain m
Danish: skorsten (da) c, skorstenspibe c
Daur: xolly
Dutch: schoorsteen (nl) m, schouw (nl) m
Esperanto: kameno
Estonian: korsten (et)
Faroese: skorsteinur m
Finnish: savukanava (fi), savupiippu (fi)
French: cheminée (fr) f
Friulian: cjamin m, čhamìn m
Galician: cheminea (gl) f, chaminea f, fumeira f, parrumeira f, paraña f, tamboira f, troneira f
Georgian: საკვამური (saḳvamuri), ბუხარი (ka) (buxari), კვამლსადენი (ḳvamlsadeni), საკვამლე მილი (saḳvamle mili)
German: Kamin (de) m, Esse (de) f, Schlot (de) m, Schornstein (de) m
Greek: καπνοδόχος (el) f (kapnodóchos), καμινάδα (el) (kamináda), φουγάρο (el) n (fougáro) (ships etc.)
Ancient: καπνοδόκη f (kapnodókē), κάπνη f (kápnē)
Gujarati: ધુમાડિયું (dhumāḍiyũ), ચીમની f (cīmnī)
Hebrew: ארובה \ אֲרֻבָּה (he) f ('arubá)
Hindi: चिमनी (hi) f (cimnī), धुआँकश (hi) m (dhuā̃kaś)
Hungarian: kémény (hu), kürtő (hu), kéménycső, kéménykürtő
Icelandic: reykháfur (is) m, skorsteinn m, strompur m
Indonesian: cerobong (id)
Irish: múchán m, simléar (ga) m, toiteachán m
Italian: camino (it) m, ciminiera (it) f
Japanese: 煙突 (ja) (えんとつ, entotsu), 煙出し (けむだし, kemudashi), 煙り出し (けむりだし, kemuridashi)
Kazakh: мұржа (mūrja)
Korean: 굴뚝 (ko) (gulttuk)
Kumyk: тюнгюлюк (tüñülük)
Kyrgyz: мор (mor), чыккыч (cıkkıc), түтүк (ky) (tütük)
Lao: ປ່ອງ (pǭng), ປ່ອງໄຟ (pǭng fai)
Latin: camīnus m, fūmārium n
Latvian: dūmenis m, skurstenis m (germanism)
Lithuanian: kaminas m
Luxembourgish: Kamäin m
Macedonian: о́џак m (ódžak)
Malay: serombong (ms)
Malayalam: ചിമ്മിനി (ml) (cimmini), പുകക്കുഴൽ (ml) (pukakkuḻal)
Manchu: ᡥᡡᠯᠠᠨ (hūlan)
Manipuri: ꯃꯩꯈꯨꯊꯣꯡ (meikhuthong)
Maori: timera, putaauahi, tumera
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: камин зүүх (kamin züüx), яндан (mn) (jandan)
Norman: cheunm'née f (Jersey), chim'naïe f (Guernsey), chimnee f (Sark), chouque dé chimenaée (continental Normandy)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pipe (no) f, skorstein m
Ossetian: фӕздӕгдзон (fæzdægʒon)
Ottoman Turkish: اوجاق (ocak)
Persian:
Dari: دُودْکَش (fa) (dūdkaš)

Iranian Persian: دودْکِش (fa) (dudkeš)
Polish: komin (pl) m, dymnik m
Portuguese: chaminé (pt) f
Romanian: coș (ro) n, horn (ro) n, cămin (ro) n, fumar (ro) n
Russian: труба́ (ru) f (trubá), дымохо́д (ru) m (dymoxód), дымова́я труба́ f (dymovája trubá)
Scots: lum
Scottish Gaelic: similear m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ди̑мња̄к m, о̀џак m

Roman: dȋmnjāk (sh) m, òdžak (sh) m
Skolt Sami: truuba, reä´ppen
Slovak: komín m
Slovene: dimnik (sl) m
Southern Altai: тӱндӱк (tündük), тӱӱнӱк (tüünük), труба (truba)
Spanish: chimenea (es) f
Swahili: dohani
Swedish: skorsten (sv) c
Tagalog: pausukan
Tajik: дудбаро (tg) (dudbaro), дудкаш (dudkaš)
Tamil: புகைப்போக்கி (ta) (pukaippōkki)
Thai: ปล่อง (th) (bplɔ̀ng), ปล่องควัน (bplɔ̀ng-kwan), ปล่องไฟ (bplɔ̀ng-fai)
Turkish: baca (tr)
Turkmen: truba
Tuvan: хоолай (xoolay), ыш үндүрер хоолай (ış ündürer xoolay)
Ukrainian: димова́ труба́ f (dymová trubá), димохі́д m (dymoxíd), дима́р m (dymár), бо́вдур (uk) m (bóvdur)
Urdu: چِمْنی f (cimnī), دُود کَش m (dūd kaś), دُھواں کَش m (dhuā̃ kaś)
Uzbek: moʻri (uz), truba (uz)
Venetan: camin (vec) m
Vietnamese: ống khói (vi) (𨇹𤌋)
Volapük: cim (vo)
Welsh: ffynnel
Yiddish: קוימען (koymen)
Zazaki: loce

glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp

Bengali: চিমনি (bn) (cimoni)
Bulgarian: ла́мпено шише́ n (lámpeno šišé)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 玻璃燈罩／玻璃灯罩 (bōli dēngzhào)
Czech: cylindr (cs) m
Dutch: lampenkap (nl) f
Finnish: öljylampun lasi, liekkilasi
Georgian: კვამლსადენი (ḳvamlsadeni)
German: Kamin (de) m
Gujarati: ચીમની f (cīmnī)
Hungarian: olajlámpaüveg, lámpaüveg (hu), cilinder (hu)
Irish: gloine lampa f, simléar lampa m
Italian: fumaiolo (it) m, bulbo (it) m
Ottoman Turkish: {{t|1=ota|2=شیشه|tr=şişe}}
Portuguese: manga (pt) f
Russian: ла́мповое стекло́ n (lámpovoje stekló)
Spanish: tubo (es) m

UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive

Afrikaans: skoorsteen (af)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 煙囪／烟囱 (zh) (yāncōng)
Czech: komín (cs) m
Dutch: schoorsteen (nl) m
Finnish: savupiippu (fi)
French: cheminée (fr) f
German: Schlot (de) m
Hebrew: מַעֲשֵׁנָה (he) f (ma'ashená)
Hungarian: kémény (hu)
Icelandic: reykháfur (is) m, strompur m
Italian: fumaiolo (it) m
Maori: timera, putaauahi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skorstein m
Portuguese: chaminé (pt) f
Russian: труба́ (ru) f (trubá)
Scots: lum
Slovene: dimnik (sl) m

narrow cleft in a rock face

Bulgarian: коми́н (bg) m (komín)
Catalan: xemeneia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 煙囪／烟囱 (zh) (yāncōng), 煙囪裂口／烟囱裂口 (yāncōng lièkǒu)
Dutch: spleet (nl) f
Finnish: kuilu (fi)
German: Spalte (de) f, Schlot (de) m
Italian: camino (it) m
Portuguese: chaminé (pt) f
Russian: расще́лина (ru) f (rasščélina)

Verb

chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed)

(climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.