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** The term, moreover, also means "courtyard" or "garden", and in this sense has been used as a compound element for words such as ''galtarkeika'' (train station) or ''lairkeika'' (airport). Therefore, ''keika'' in colloquial usage often also means "station". | ** The term, moreover, also means "courtyard" or "garden", and in this sense has been used as a compound element for words such as ''galtarkeika'' (train station) or ''lairkeika'' (airport). Therefore, ''keika'' in colloquial usage often also means "station". | ||
* ''lāmahikā'' — dormitory | * ''lāmahikā'' — dormitory | ||
* ''ulañšāmas'' — a [w:chawl|]]-like building of single-room apartments; typically the place of residency of young people, students (most of the times ''ulañšāme'' are dormitories, and lots of dormitories are ''ulañšāme''), people waiting for a flat to be assigned, or people that don't have a registered workplace and live especially in ''ulañšāme'' used by legions, where they effectively work as volunteers. | |||
* ''martakita'' — [[w:shophouse|shophouse]], a type of terraced house where the upper floor(s) is/are residential and the ground floor is a shop. Literally meaning "city house", this is the dominant type of building in the older centres of Chlouvānem cities. ''martakitai'' do not need to have a uniform front - being attached to another such house on at least one side is enough to define them as such. | * ''martakita'' — [[w:shophouse|shophouse]], a type of terraced house where the upper floor(s) is/are residential and the ground floor is a shop. Literally meaning "city house", this is the dominant type of building in the older centres of Chlouvānem cities. ''martakitai'' do not need to have a uniform front - being attached to another such house on at least one side is enough to define them as such. | ||
* ''emibą kita'' — single-family (detached) house. Common in rural areas, rainforest villages, and in a few older neighborhoods of some cities; suburban areas (more suburban-Japan-like than suburban-US-like) of mainly detached areas are very rare, except for a few ones built in the years just after the end of the Kaiṣamā, mainly around Līlasuṃghāṇa, Līlta, Galiākina, and notably in the metropolitan area of Kalikarāsnah, a major city of the Northeast. | * ''emibą kita'' — single-family (detached) house. Common in rural areas, rainforest villages, and in a few older neighborhoods of some cities; suburban areas (more suburban-Japan-like than suburban-US-like) of mainly detached areas are very rare, except for a few ones built in the years just after the end of the Kaiṣamā, mainly around Līlasuṃghāṇa, Līlta, Galiākina, and notably in the metropolitan area of Kalikarāsnah, a major city of the Northeast. | ||