toalett

From the German Toilette, from the French toilette (“small cloth”), dim. of toile (“cloth”); a cloth used to protect garments when making up the hair or shaving.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtoɒlɛtː]
• Hyphenation: to‧a‧lett
• Rhymes: -ɛtː

toalett (plural toalettek)

1. toilet (the act of dressing, washing, grooming oneself)
2. dress
3. dressing room
4. dressing table
5. (rare) lavatory, water closet

• toalett in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

toalett n (definite singular toalettet, indefinite plural toalett or toaletter, definite plural toaletta or toalettene)

1. a toilet
2. personal grooming
   • Han gjorde sitt morgentoalett

   He was doing his morning grooming session

3. (archaic) attire, suit
   • stort toalett

   gala attire

• dametoalett
• herretoalett
• toalettpapir
• toalettsete

• “toalett” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

toalett n (definite singular toalettet, indefinite plural toalett, definite plural toaletta)

1. a toilet

• dametoalett
• herretoalett
• toalettpapir
• toalettsete

• “toalett” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /tuːaˈlɛt/

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toalett c

1. a toilet (fixture for urination and defecation)

   Synonyms: toalettstol, vattenklosett, klosett, porslinstron

   sitta på toaletten

   sit on the toilet

   spola toaletten

   flush the toilet

2. a bathroom, a toilet (room containing a toilet, and sometimes a shower or bath tub)

   gå på toaletten

   go to the bathroom

   vara på toaletten

   be in the bathroom

   Ursäkta, var är toaletten?

   Excuse me, where is the bathroom?

   Är det upptaget på toaletten?

   Is the bathroom occupied / engaged / in use?

   låsa (upp) toalettdörren

   (un)lock the bathroom door

• toa (colloquial)
• dass (colloquial)
• skithus (colloquial)
• hemlighus

• offentlig toalett (“public toilet”)

• badrum
• bajamaja (“portapotty”)
• bajsnödig (“needing to poop”)
• brusefåtölj
• kissnödig (“needing to pee”)
• naturbehov (“call of nature”)
• necessär
• nödig (“needing to pee or poop”)
• spola (“flush”)
• toalettborste (“toilet brush”)
• toalettpapper (“toilet paper”)
• toalettrulle (“toilet roll”)
• toalettsits (“toilet seat”)
• (ute)dass (“outhouse”)

• toalett in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• toalett in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• toalett in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)