Toilet
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English
Etymology
From French toilette.
Noun
toilet
- a ceramic bowl that can be flushed down with water after disposing of human waste in it.
- a lavatory or water closet, w.c.
- (British, Aust) a bathroom, a room containing a toilet in it.
- (figurative) Somewhere unpleasing to the eye or unhygenic.
Phrases
- toilet paper
- toilet roll
- toilet water
Translations
- Breton: privezioù pl
- Dutch: toilet n, wc m, huisje n, kleinste kamertje n
- Esperanto: fekseĝo (1), klozeto (2), necesejo (3)
- Finnish: potta (1); WC, toiletti, vessa (colloquial); kylpyhuone (3)
- French: toilettes f, pl, wc m
- German: Toilette f, WC m, Klo n
- Hebrew: שרטים m,pl
- Indonesian: toilet, WC
- Interlingua: toilette, water closet, wc
- Japanese: トイレ (toire), 便所 (べんじょ, benjo)
- Spanish: excusado m, retrete m, water m, baño m
- Polish: toaleta f, ubikacja f
- Portuguese: casa de banho f (Portugal), vaso sanitário m, privada f; banheiro m (2, 3)
- Tagalog: inidoro
- Volapük: tvalet
- Turkish: tuvalet
See also
- bog
- crapper
- jacks (Hiberno English)
- john (US)
- khazi
- Outhouse
Verb
- to go to toilet (maybe just to wash hands).
- to sell toiletries.
