chantage

See also: Chantage

English

Etymology

From 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/
Audio (file)
Homophone: chantages

Noun

chantage m (plural chantages)

blackmail, shakedown (threat to obtain some advantage)

Derived terms

maitre-chanteur

Related terms

faire chanter

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

changeât

Spanish

Noun

chantage m (plural chantages)

Obsolete form of chantaje.

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