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, bath-room

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-

Proto-Germanic *baþą

Proto-West Germanic *baþ

Old English bæþ

Middle English bath

English bath

Proto-West Germanic *rūm

Old English rūm

Middle English roum

English room

English bathroom

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːθɹʊm/, /ˈbɑːθɹuːm/

• Audio (UK):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbæθˌɹum/, /ˈbæθɹʊm/

• Audio (US):

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• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæθɹʊm/, /ˈbæθɹuːm/
• Rhymes: -ʊm, -uːm

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, Philippines, Australia, 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

From the beginning of the 20th century, bathroom has been the generic word for a room with toilet facilities in American English, whereas Britons have continued to say lavatory relatively more frequently, and often loo or WC for a room with a toilet but no bath.

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

Derived terms

• bathroom bag
• bathroom bill
• bathroom break
• bathroomette
• bathroomful
• bathroomgoer
• bathroomish
• bathroomless
• bathroomlike
• bathroom scales
• bathroom singer
• bathroom tissue
• bathroomware
• bathroomy
• do you need to use the bathroom
• full bathroom
• go to the bathroom
• half bathroom
• multibathroom
• quarter bathroom
• split bathroom
• three-quarter bathroom
• use the bathroom

 

Descendants

• → Hindi: बाथरूम (bāthrūm)
• → Urdu: باتھ روم (bāth-rūm)

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 (bn) (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 (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

• Occitan: banhador (oc) m, sala de banh f
• Osage: ohíiðahci
• Ottoman Turkish: بانیو (banyo), 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), lavabo (es) m
• 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: غسل خانہ m (ġusal-xānā), حمام (hammām), حمام خانہ (hammām-xānā), باتھ روم (bāth-rūm)
• 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

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Translations to be checked

• Lao: ^{(please verify)} [script needed] (huang naum)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} باٹھروم (bāṭhrūm), ^{(please verify)} پا خانہ (pā xānā), سنانگھر m (snānaghar), طہارت گاہ (tahārat-gāh), طہارت خانہ (tahārat-xāna), صحت خانہ (sehat-xāna)

Verb

bathroom (third-person singular simple present bathrooms, present participle bathrooming, simple past and past participle bathroomed)

1. (medicine, transitive) To assist a patient with using the toilet and general personal hygiene.

Anagrams

• Robotham, Bohr atom