English [ edit ] A bathroom with primitive toilet in the UK's Beamish Museum . A public bathroom (restroom Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From bath room Dutch badkamer ( “ bathroom ” ) , German Badezimmer ( “ bathroom ” ) , Swedish badrum ( “ bathroom ” ) , Faroese baðrúm ( “ bathroom ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ] bathroom (plural bathrooms
A room containing a shower and/or bathtub , and ( typically but not necessarily ) a toilet .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom Hypernym: room
( chiefly US , South Africa , Canada , euphemistic ) A lavatory ( area where one washes or bathes ) : a room containing a toilet and ( typically but not necessarily ) a bathtub .
Most Americans don't know 'WC' and many Brits mock 'bathroom' but almost everyone understands 'toilet' or 'lavatory'.
Usage notes [ edit ] From the beginning of the 20th century, bathroom has been the generic word for a room with toilet facilities in American English,[1] lavatory loo WC
In some contexts, bathroom refers more particularly to the toilet facilities of a private residence, distinguished from public buildings' restroom s (US), washroom s (Canada), men's room s , ladies' room s , etc.
Derived terms [ edit ] Descendants [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] a room with a bathtub
Afrikaans: badkamer
Albanian: banjë (sq) f
Arabic: حَمَّام (ar) m ( ḥammām )
Armenian: լոգարան (hy) ( logaran ) , բաղնիք (hy) ( baġnikʿ )
Azerbaijani: vanna otağı hamamxana hamam (az)
Bashkir: мунса ( monsa )
Basque: bainugela
Belarusian: ва́нная f ( vánnaja ) , ва́нны пако́й m ( vánny pakój )
Bengali: গোসলখানা ( gōśolkhana )
Breton: sal-gibellañ f
Bulgarian: ба́ня (bg) f ( bánja )
Burmese: ရေချိုးခန်း ( rehkyui:hkan: )
Catalan: cambra de bany f bany (ca) m
Chickasaw: aboowoshi'
Chinese:
Mandarin: 浴室 (zh) ( yùshì )
Chuvash: мунча ( munč̬a )
Cornish: stevel omwolghi f stevel omwolhi f
Czech: koupelna (cs) f
Danish: badeværelse (da) n
Dutch: badkamer (nl) f
Egyptian: (sqbbwj m
Esperanto: banĉambro (eo)
Estonian: vannituba (et)
Faroese: baðirúm n baðrúm n baðstova f
Fijian: vale vo (fj)
Finnish: kylpyhuone (fi) , kylppäri (fi)
French: salle de bains (fr) f
Galician: baño (gl) m
Georgian: სააბაზანო ( saabazano ) , აბანო (ka) ( abano ) , სააბაზანო ოთახი ( saabazano otaxi )
German: Badezimmer (de) n Bad (de) n
Gilbertese: te roki
Greek: λουτρό (el) n ( loutró ) , μπάνιο (el) n ( bánio )
Gujarati: નહાવાની ઓરડી m ( nahāvānī oraḍī )
Haitian Creole: twalèt saldeben
Hebrew: חדר־אמבטיה m ( khadar-ambat'ia )
Hindi: स्नानघर (hi) ( snānghar ) , ग़ुस्लख़ाना m ( ġuslaxānā )
Hungarian: fürdőszoba (hu)
Hunsrik: Baadezimmer n Baad n
Icelandic: baðherbergi (is) n
Ido: balnochambro (io)
Ilocano: pagdigusan
Indonesian: kamar mandi (id)
Interlingua: camera de banio
Irish: seomra folctha m
Italian: stanza da bagno , bagno (it) m
Japanese: 風呂場 (ja) ( ふろば, furoba ) , 浴室 (ja) ( よくしつ, yokushitsu )
Kannada: ಸ್ನಾನಗೃಹದ ( snānagṛhada )
Kashubian: kąpnica f
Kazakh: ванна бөлмесі (kk) ( vanna bölmesı )
Khmer: បន្ទប់ទឹក ( bɑntup tɨk )
Kongo: kikozo
Korean: 욕실(浴室) (ko) ( yoksil ) , 목욕실(沐浴室) (ko) ( mogyoksil )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: حھ مام ( ḧih mam )
Northern Kurdish: hemam (ku) , banyo (ku)
Kyrgyz: ванна бөлмөсү (ky) ( vanna bölmösü ) , ванналуу бөлмө ( vannaluu bölmö )
Lao: ຫ້ອງນ້ຳ ຫ້ອງອາບນ້ຳ ສ້ວມອາບນ້ຳ ( sūam ʼāp nam )
Latin: balneum n
Latvian: vannasistaba f
Lithuanian: vonia f
Luxembourgish: Buedzëmmer n
Macedonian: бања f ( banja ) , купатило n ( kupatilo )
Malay: bilik mandi
Maltese: kamra tal-banju
Maori: whare kaukau rūma tāpu rūma kaukau
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: угаалгын өрөө ( ugaalgyn öröö )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bad (no) n baderom n
Osage: ohíiðahci
Ottoman Turkish: حمام ( hamam )
Palauan: orchertoll
Pashto: لمبل ځای m ( lambā jãy ) , حمام (ps) m ( hamām )
Persian: حمام (fa) ( hammâm )
Plautdietsch: Bodstow f
Polish: łazienka (pl) f
Portuguese: banheiro (pt) m ( Brazil ) , casa de banho (pt) f ( Portugal )
Quechua: chhallpuku
Romanian: baie (ro) f
Russian: ва́нная (ru) f ( vánnaja ) , ва́нная ко́мната (ru) f ( vánnaja kómnata )
Samoan: faletaele
Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-ionnlaid m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: купао́ница f купа̏тило n купао́на f
Roman: kupaónica (sh) f kupȁtilo (sh) n kupaóna (sh) f
Slovak: kúpeľňa (sk) f
Slovene: kopalnica (sl) f
Somali: musqul musqushu
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kupadło n
Upper Sorbian: kupjelnja
Sotho: batekamore e kae
Spanish: cuarto de baño (es) m baño (es)
Swedish: badrum (sv) n
Tagalog: banyo
Tajik: ҳаммом ( hammom ) , ваннахона ( vannaxona )
Tamil: குளியலறை (ta) ( kuḷiyalaṟai )
Tatar: мунча (tt) ( munça ) , ванна бүлмәсе ( wanna bülmäse )
Telugu: స్నానాలగది (te) ( snānālagadi )
Thai: ห้องน้ำ (th) ( hɔ̂ng-náam )
Tibetan: གསང་སྤྱོད ( gsang spyod ) , ཁྲུས་ཁང ( khrus khang )
Turkish: banyo (tr)
Turkmen: wanna otagy hammam
Ukrainian: ва́нна кімна́та f ( vánna kimnáta ) , ва́нна (uk) f ( vánna )
Urdu: غسلخانہ m ( ġusalxānā ) , سنانگھر m ( snānaghar )
Uyghur: مۇنچا ( muncha ) , ھاممام ( hammam )
Uzbek: hammom (uz) , vannaxona (uz)
Vietnamese: buồng tắm phòng tắm
Volapük: banacem (vo)
Welsh: ystafell ymolchi (cy) m
Winnebago: cąągore
Yao: m'-bwaabwa
Yiddish: וואַשצימער m ( vashtsimer )
Zulu: indlu yokugezela
room with a toilet
— see toilet Translations to be checked
bathroom (third-person singular simple present bathrooms present participle bathrooming simple past and past participle bathroomed
( medicine , transitive ) To assist a patient with using the toilet and general personal hygiene.References [ edit ] 
