English

Alternative forms

• châlet

Noun

chalet ‎(plural chalets)

1. An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
   • 2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:

     Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

Translations

Anagrams

• letcha, thecal, Thecla

French

Etymology

From Franco-Provençal çhalè ‘herdsman’s hut in the mountains’, from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel ‘farmhouse’, from Late Latin casalis ‘house-like, house-related’, from Latin casa ‘house’.

Noun

chalet m ‎(plural chalets)

1. chalet

Anagrams

• léchât

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from French chalet

Noun

chalet m ‎(invariable)

1. chalet

Anagrams

• talché

Latin

Verb

chalet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of chalō

Malay

Etymology

From English chalet, from Swiss French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè, from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel, from Late Latin casalis, from Latin casa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃale/
• Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e

Noun

chalet

1. chalet (wooden house)

Spanish

chalet

Etymology

Borrowing from French chalet

Noun

chalet m ‎(plural chalets)

1. cottage, chalet

Synonyms

• chalé