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From rest + room, from an earlier sense of "breakroom".
restroom (plural restrooms)
- (US, Philippines, euphemistic) A room containing a public toilet: a public lavatory.
Could you tell me where I can find the restroom?
- (dated, now rare) A room (usually in a public building or workplace) set aside for rest and relaxation; breakroom.
public room containing a toilet
- Arabic: حُجْرَة التُوَالِيت f (ḥujra(t) at-tuwālīt), حَمَّام (ar) (ḥammām)
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܢܝܵܚܵܐ m (bēt nyāḵā)
- Armenian: զուգարան (hy) (zugaran)
- Bulgarian: тоалетна (bg) f (toaletna)
- Catalan: lavabo (ca) m, bany (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 公共廁所 / 公共厕所 (zh) (gōnggòng cèsuǒ)
- Dutch: toilet (nl) n, WC (nl) m
- Finnish: WC (fi), (colloquial) vessa (fi)
- French: toilettes (fr) f, cabinet d'aisance (fr) m
- German: Toilette (de) f
- Hebrew: שֵׁרוּתִים m pl (sherutím), נוֹחִיּוּת (he) f (noḥiyút)
- Indonesian: kamar mandi (id)
- Italian: bagno (it) m, servizi (it) pl, toilette (it) f (borrowed)
- Japanese: トイレ (ja) (toire), お手洗い (ja) (おてあらい, otearai)
- Khmer: បង្គន់សាធារណៈ (bɑngkʊən saatʰierea’na’)
- Korean: 화장실 (ko) (hwajangsil)
- Latin: forica f
- Lombard: bagn m, gabinet (lmo) m, servicî pl, cess (lmo) m
- Macedonian: тоале́т m (toalét)
- Malay: tandas (ms), bilik air (ms)
- Polish: łazienka (pl) f, ubikacja (pl) f, WC (pl) m, kibel (pl) m (colloquial), klop (pl) m (colloquial), sracz (pl) m (literally “shitter”) (slang, rude)
- Portuguese: banheiro (pt) m (Brazil), privada (pt) f (Brazil), casa de banho (pt) f (Portugal), quarto de banho m (Portugal), lavabo (pt) m (Portugal)
- Romanian: toaletă (ro) f, WC n
- Russian: туале́т (ru) m (tualét), убо́рная (ru) f (ubórnaja)
- Saanich: EMETÁU¸TW̱
- Spanish: servicio (es) m (Spain), baño (es) m, aseos (es) pl, servicios higiénicos m pl (Peru), escusado f, wálter m (Bolivia)
- Swedish: toalett (sv) c
- Ukrainian: туале́т m (tualét), вбира́льня f (vbyrálʹnja)
- Urdu: جائے ضرور (jā-e-zarūr), بیت الخلاء (bait-al-xalā'), حاجت گاہ (hājat-gāh), صحت خانہ (sehat-xāna), مستراح (mustarāh), پا خانہ (pā-xāna), فراغت خانہ (farāġat-xāna)
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