chambre

chambre (plural chambres)

1. Obsolete spelling of chamber

• becharm, chamber

From Latin camera.

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. room

From Old French chambre, cambre, from 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.

• English: chamber

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

• chaumbre

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

• (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

• chàmbre (Guernsey)

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

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chambre f (plural chambres)

1. (Jersey) bedroom

chambre c (plural chambres)

1. room (division in a building)

• cambre
• chanbre
• (Northern) 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

• French: chambre
• → English: chamber
• → Irish: seomra
• → Middle Armenian: ջամբռ (ǰambṙ)
• → Norman: chambre (Jersey), chàmbre (Guernsey)
• → Scots: chaumer
• → Scottish Gaelic: seòmar