Description:

The term 'xampu' was borrowed from the English 'shampoo', and therefore ultimately from Hindi. In Common it is much more general and refers to any kind of soap. Soap was a miss from the original Old Common language, and during the early period the derivation 'sufetpaj', 'clean-stuff' was a usual choice to express this. During the late early period 'xampu' was borrowed, originally just for hair as in English, but the word gained a broader meaning and completely displaced sufetpaj by the middle period for all forms of soap.

The sense of shampoo for the hair can be expressed with 'mury xampu', but it's not required.

As a verb, 'xampu' is a transitive skurun ver meaning to soap something or someone up, and can be used in an idiomatically reflexive antipassive pali form to mean to soap oneself up, where a part of ones body being soaped up, such as the hair, can be introduced perphrastically using the null preposition.