chantage

See also: Chantage

English

Etymology

French chantage

Noun

chantage

blackmail; the extortion of money by threats of scandalous revelations

French

Etymology

From faire chanter +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.taʒ/
Homophone: chantages

Noun

chantage m (plural chantages)

blackmail, shakedown (threat to obtain some advantage)

Descendants

Albanian: shantazh
Asturian: xantaxe
Belarusian: шантаж (šantaž)
Catalan: xantatge
Galician: chantaxe
Luxembourgish: Chantage
Polish: szantaż
Portuguese: chantagem
Romanian: șantaj
Russian: шантаж (šantaž)
- Armenian: շանտաժ (šantaž)
- Azerbaijani: şantaj
- Georgian: შანტაჟი (šanṭaži)
- Ossetian: шантаж (šantaž)
- Kyrgyz: шантаж (şantac)
- Tatar: шантаж (şantaj)
- Uzbek: shantaj
Spanish: chantaje
Turkish: şantaj
Ukrainian: шантаж (šantaž)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

changeât

Spanish

Noun

chantage m (plural chantages)

Obsolete form of chantaje.

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