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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|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. Like dormitories, they only have shared toilet facilities. | * ''ulañšāmas'' — a [[w:chawl|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. Like dormitories, they only have shared toilet facilities. It is to be noted that ''ulañšāme'' are not poor housing, and are built and demanded due to offering de facto free housing for the needs of specific categories of people. | ||
* ''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. | ||