verb/ʃa.lwaʁ/
to matter (to), to be of import (for)
Related: chaland, nonchaloir, nonchalant
Inherited from Middle French chaloir, from Old French chaloir, from earlier chaleir, from Latin calēre (“to heat”), from Proto-Italic *kalēō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-. Compare Occitan caler, Catalan caldre (“to be necessary”), Italian calere.