bathroom

See also: bath room

English

A bathroom with primitive toilet in the UK's Beamish Museum.

A public bathroom (restroom) in the United States.

Alternative forms

• bath room

Etymology

From bath +‎ room. Compare Dutch badkamer (“bathroom”), German Badezimmer (“bathroom”), Swedish badrum (“bathroom”), Faroese baðrúm (“bathroom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːθ.ɹuːm/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbæθɹum/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbæθ.ɹuːm/

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (UK)

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Noun

bathroom (plural bathrooms)

1. 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

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I wash in the bathroom.

     Audio (US)

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2. (chiefly US, South Africa, Canada, euphemistic) A lavatory: 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

From the beginning of the 20th century, bathroom has been the generic word for a room with toilet facilities in American English. As Britons continue to say lavatory relatively more frequently and often loo or WC for a room with a toilet but no bath. Partly from French influence, such rooms are also relatively more common in British homes.[citation needed]

In some contexts, bathroom refers more particularly to the toilet facilities of a private residence, distinguished from public buildings' restrooms, men's rooms, ladies' rooms, etc.

Translations

a room with a bathtub

• Afrikaans: badkamer
• Albanian: banjë (sq) f
• Arabic: حَمَّام (ar) m (ḥammām)
• Armenian: լոգարան (hy) (logaran), բաղնիք (hy) (baġnikʻ)
• Azerbaijani: vanna otağı, hamamxana, hamam (az)
• Bashkir: мунса (munsa)
• 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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浴室 (zh) (yùshì)

• Chuvash: мунча (munč̬a)
• Czech: koupelna (cs) f
• Danish: badeværelse (da) n
• Dutch: badkamer (nl) f
• Esperanto: banĉambro
• 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 (kheder-ambat'ia)
• Hindi: स्नानघर (hi) (snānghar), ग़ुस्लख़ाना m (ġuslaxānā)
• Hungarian: fürdőszoba (hu)
• Hunsrik: Baadezimmer n, Baad n
• Icelandic: baðherbergi (is) n
• Ido: balnochambro (io)
• Indonesian: kamar mandi (id)
• Interlingua: camera de banio
• Interlingue:
• 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 (ko) (yoksil) (浴室 (ko)), 목욕실 (ko) (mogyoksil)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: ванна бөлмөсү (ky) (vanna bölmösü), ванналуу бөлмө (vannaluu bölmö)
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• 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: угаалгын өрөө (ugaalgyn öröö)
• Norwegian: bad (no) n, baderom
• Osage: ohíiðahci
• Palauan: orchertoll
• Pashto: لمبل ځای m (lambā jãy)
• Persian: حمام (fa) (hammâm)
• 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 f (vánnaja kómnata)
• Samoan: faletaele
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-ionnlaid m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: купатило n, купаоница f, купаона f

  Roman: kupatilo (sh) n, kupaonica (sh) f, kupaona (sh) f

• Slovak: kúpeľňa (sk) f
• Slovene: kopalnica (sl) f
• Somali: musqul, musqushu
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kupadło n

• Sotho: batekamore e kae
• Spanish: cuarto de baño (es) m, baño (es)
• Swedish: badrum (sv) n
• Tagalog: banyo
• Tajik: ҳаммом (hammom)
• Tamil: குளியலறை (ta) (kuḷiyalaṟai)
• 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: سنانگھر m (snānaghar), غسلخانہ m (ġusalxānā)
• Uyghur: مۇنچا (muncha), ھاممام (hammam)
• Uzbek: hammom (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

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• (deprecated template usage) Lao: (huang naum)
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• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} باٹھروم (bathrum), ^{(please verify)} پا خانه (pê khâneh), ^{(please verify)} غسل خانه (ghisl khâneh)