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{{wikipedia|dab=loo}} {{also|100}} ==English== ===Pronunciation=== * {{a|British|US}} {{IPA|/luː/}} * {{audio|en-us-loo.ogg|Audio (US)}} * {{rhymes|uː}} ===Etymology 1=== Unknown; possible origins include: * French ''lieu'', place * A particular brand of early toilet cisterns, trademarked 'Waterloo'. * (''fancifully'') the exclamation "gare à l'eau!" ("mind the water!") used when emptying a [[chamber pot]] out of a window onto the public sidewalk or street. * the numbering of 00 on a toilet in a building ====Noun==== {{en-noun}} # {{context|colloquial|Australian English|NZ|British}} [[toilet]] =====Translations===== {{trans-top|toilet}} * Chinese: ** Simplified Chinese: [[厕所]] (cè suǒ) (''colloquial'') ** Traditional Chinese: [[廁所]] (''colloquial'') * Finnish: {{t+|fi|vessa}} {{trans-mid}} * French: [[petit coin]] {{m}}, [[waters#French|waters]] ''m pl'' * Japanese: [[厠]] (kawaya), [[便所]] (benjo) * Russian: {{t+|ru|туалет|m}} * Thai: [[ห้องส้วม]] {{trans-bottom}} ===Etymology 2=== From Chinese ====Noun==== '''loo''' # A [[card game]] =====Translations===== * Chinese: ** Simplified Chinese: 卢[[牌]][[戏]] (lú pái xì) ** Traditional Chinese: 盧[[牌]][[戲]] ===Etymology 3=== From {{etyl|hi}}, from {{etyl|sa}} {{term||tr=ulkā}}.{{attention|hi}}{{attention|sa}} ====Noun==== {{en-noun|-}} # A hot, dusty [[wind]] in [[Bihar]] and the [[Punjab]]. #* '''1888''', Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Man Who Would be King’, ''The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales'', Folio Society 2005, p. 135: #*: It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the '''''loo''''', the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels. [[Category:Card games]] [[Category:Rooms]] [[Category:Unknown etymology]] [[Category:WC]] ---- ==Spanish== ===Verb=== {{es-verb-form|loar}} # {{es-verb form of|ending=ar|mood=indicative|tense=present|pers=1|number=singular|[[loar]]}} [[cs:loo]] [[de:loo]] [[fr:loo]] [[io:loo]] [[no:loo]] [[fi:loo]] [[te:loo]] [[vi:loo]] [[zh:loo]]
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