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See also: Chauffeur

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:chauffeurWikipedia

Etymology

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Borrowed from French chauffeur.

Pronunciation

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  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃɒˈfɜː/, /ˈʃəʊfə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ʃoʊˈfɝ/, /ˈʃoʊfɚ/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • Homophone: shofar (some pronunciations of both words)
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Noun

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chauffeur (plural chauffeurs)

  1. A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎[1]:He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.
    • 1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy‎[2] (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:Super Nintendo, Sega GenesisWhen I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this50-inch screen, money-green leather sofaGot two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
    • 2024, “Hot One”, in King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2, performed by Denzel Curry:I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur
  2. (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck. Synonym: engineer

Usage notes

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As the French word chauffeur has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.

Hypernyms

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  • (both senses): driver

Derived terms

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  • chauffeur driver (synonym)
  • chauffeuress
  • chauffeurless
  • chauffeurship

Translations

[edit] person employed to drive a motor car
  • Albanian: shofer (sq) m
  • Arabic: سائِق (ar) m (sāʔiq) Hijazi Arabic: سَوَّاق m (sawwāg)
  • Armenian: ավտովարորդ (hy) (avtovarord)
  • Aromanian: shufer m
  • Azerbaijani: sürücü (az), şofer
  • Belarusian: шафёр m (šafjór), кіро́ўца m (kirówca), вадзі́цель m (vadzícjelʹ)
  • Bulgarian: шофьо́р (bg) m (šofjór)
  • Catalan: xofer (ca) m, xòfer (ca) m
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 司機 / 司机 (zh) (sījī)
  • Czech: šofér (cs) m, řidič (cs) m
  • Danish: chauffør (da) c
  • Dutch: privéchauffeur (nl) m
  • Esperanto: ŝoforo, ŝoforino (female)
  • Estonian: autojuht
  • Faroese: bilstjóri m, bilførari m, sjaførur m (colloquial)
  • Finnish: autonkuljettaja (fi), kuljettaja (fi), sofööri, safööri
  • French: chauffeur (fr) m, chauffeuse (fr) f
  • Galician: chofer m
  • Georgian: მძღოლი (mʒɣoli)
  • German: Chauffeur (de) m, Chauffeurin (de) f, Chauffeuse (de) f (Swiss German), Berufschauffeur m, Berufschauffeurin f, Schofför (de) m (obsolete), Schofförin (de) f (obsolete)
  • Greek: οδηγός (el) m or f (odigós), σιοφέρης m (sioféris) (Cypriot)
  • Hungarian: sofőr (hu)
  • Iban: deriba
  • Icelandic: bílstjóri m, einkabílstjóri m
  • Ido: motoristo (io)
  • Indonesian: supir (id), sopir (id)
  • Italian: chauffeur (it) m, autista (it) m or f
  • Japanese: 運転手 (ja) (うんてんしゅ, untenshu)
  • Kazakh: шопыр (şopyr), жүргізуші (kk) (jürgızuşı)
  • Korean: 운전사(運轉士) (ko) (unjeonsa), 기사(技士) (ko) (gisa)
  • Kyrgyz: шофёр (ky) (şofyor)
  • Latvian: vadītājs (lv) m, šoferis m
  • Lithuanian: vairuotojas m, šoferis m
  • Lombard: çofœr, autista
  • Macedonian: шо́фер m (šófer), во́зач (mk) m (vózač)
  • Malay: pemandu (ms), drebar, supir
  • Maltese: xufier m, xufiera f
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: sjåfør (no) m Nynorsk: sjåfør m
  • Occitan: chòfer, chofer
  • Persian: شوفر (fa) (šofer)
  • Polish: szofer (pl) m, szoferka (pl) f
  • Portuguese: motorista (pt) m or f, chofer (pt) m or f
  • Romanian: șofer (ro) m
  • Russian: шофёр (ru) m (šofjór), персона́льный води́тель m (personálʹnyj vodítelʹ), води́тель (ru) m (vodítelʹ), води́тельница (ru) f (vodítelʹnica)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: возач m, возачица f Latin: vòzāč (sh) m, vozàčica (sh) f
  • Sinhalese: රියදුරා (riyadurā)
  • Slovak: šofér m, vodič m
  • Slovene: šofer m, voznik (sl) m
  • Spanish: chófer (es) m or f, chofer (es) m or f, chauffer (es) m, chafirite (es) m (despective), chafirita (es) f (despective)
  • Swedish: chaufför (sv) c
  • Tajik: шофёр (tg) (šofyor)
  • Thai: คนขับ (kon-kàp)
  • Turkish: şoför (tr), sürücü (tr)
  • Turkmen: şofýor
  • Ukrainian: шофе́р m (šofér), во́дій m (vódij)
  • Uzbek: shofyor (uz)
  • Vietnamese: tài xế (vi)
  • Volapük: joför (vo), hijoför (male), jijoför (female)
  • Yiddish: שאָפֿער m (shofer), שאָפֿערשע f (shofershe)
fire truck driver
  • Hungarian: tűzoltóautó-vezető, tűzoltóautó-sofőr

Verb

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chauffeur (third-person singular simple present chauffeurs, present participle chauffeuring, simple past and past participle chauffeured)

  1. (intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 75:"Old Pearson. He did gardening for us, and chauffeuring for my father. Such a dear old man - I've know him all my life."
  2. (transitive) To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle. Synonyms: transport, bring, shuttle

Translations

[edit] intransitive: to be, or act as a chauffeur
  • Esperanto: ŝofori
  • Finnish: ajaa (fi)
  • German: chauffieren (de)
transitive: to transport someone in a motor car
  • Esperanto: konduki aŭtomobile, veturigi, ŝofori
  • Finnish: kuljettaa (fi), ajaa (fi), kyyditä (fi)
  • German: chauffieren (de), herumfahren (de) (colloquial)

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:chauffeurWikipedia nl

Etymology

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Borrowed from French chauffeur.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃoːˈføːr/, /ʃɑu̯ˈføːr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: chauf‧feur
  • Rhymes: -øːr

Noun

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chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, diminutive chauffeurtje n, feminine chauffeuse)

  1. driver (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus; usually to transport others or in a professional capacity, often both)

Derived terms

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  • buschauffeur
  • camionchauffeur
  • taxichauffeur
  • vrachtwagenchauffeur

Descendants

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  • → Aukan: safeli
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sopir
  • → Indonesian: sopir
  • → Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦥꦶꦂ (sopir)
  • → West Frisian: sjauffeur

French

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Etymology

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From chauffer (“to warm up”) +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃo.fœʁ/
  • Audio (Paris); “un chauffeur”:(file)
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)
  • Rhymes: -œʁ

Noun

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chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse or chauffeure)

  1. (rail transport) stoker; fireman
  2. driver chauffeur de taxi ― taxi driver
  3. chauffeur (private driver)

Derived terms

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  • chauffard

Descendants

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  • → Catalan: xofer, xòfer
  • → Czech: šofér
  • → Danish: chauffør
  • → Dutch: chauffeur
    • → Aukan: safeli
    • → Caribbean Javanese: sopir
    • → Indonesian: sopir
    • → Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦥꦶꦂ (sopir)
    • → West Frisian: sjauffeur
  • → English: chauffeur
  • ⇒ Esperanto: ŝoforo
  • → German: Chauffeur
  • → Hungarian: sofőr
  • → Javanese: (New Caledonian) chauffeur
  • → Ladino: shofer, shofor
  • → Latvian: šoferis
  • → Lingala: sofɛ́lɛ
  • → Lithuanian: šoferis
  • → Moroccan Arabic: شيفور
  • → Norwegian: sjåfør
  • → Persian: شوفر (šufer)
  • → Polish: szofer
  • → Portuguese: chofer, chauffeur
  • → Romanian: șofer
  • → Russian: шофёр (šofjór), шофёръ (šofjór) — pre-1918 spelling, шофер (šofjór) — Russian spellings with е instead of ё, шо́фер (šófer) — non-standard, considered uneducated
    • → Armenian: շոֆեր (šofer), շոֆեռ (šofeṙ), շոֆէօր (šofēōr) (Western Armenian)
    • → Azerbaijani: şofer, شوفر
    • → Uyghur: shopur, شوپۇر (shopur)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m
  • → Spanish: chofer
  • → Swedish: chaufför
  • → Thai: โชเฟอร์ (choo-fə̂ə)
  • → Turkish: şoför

Further reading

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  • “chauffeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃoˈfeɾ/ [t͡ʃoˈfeɾ]
  • Rhymes: -eɾ
  • Syllabification: chauf‧feur

Noun

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chauffeur m or f by sense (plural chauffeurs or chauffeur)

  1. (rare) alternative form of chofer

Further reading

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  • Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “chauffeur”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

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