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** ''mundhūdvārma'' — laundry room (less common synonym) | ** ''mundhūdvārma'' — laundry room (less common synonym) | ||
* ''mitendvārma'' — bathroom | * ''mitendvārma'' — bathroom | ||
** In traditional (rural) homes, when people didn’t just wash themselves in rivers or lakes, bath-“rooms” were semi-open cubicles outside the house, which were converted into showers (''dašamitoe'', pl. ''dašamitenī''; a cubicle is a ''dašamitempliṭa'') when plumbing systems became commonplace. This is still the norm in most of the rural Chlouvānem world and in most self-standing homes, with these types of homes in colder areas having them inside the house. In most modern flats, there’s not a distinct bathroom due to the limited space, and there's just a shower in the same room as the toilet (in some areas, toilets are in a cubicle inside this room) for the actual washing; only larger apartments in smaller blocks may have a distinct bathroom with an actual bath. Residential buildings such as older ''keikai'', dormitories, ''ulañšāme'', and summer resort camp accomodations, i.e. those with shared toilets, have a few shower cubicles as part of the shared hygienical facilities.<br/>The costume of bath as relaxation (''lāligatah'', cf. ''mitoe'' which is a shower or any bath for washing) is however integral to many parts of the Chlouvānem world, and there are still public bathhouses (''lālikah'', pl. ''lālikai'') for this, as only a very small percentage of people with large families receive from the state an apartment with a full bathroom; bath as relaxation, for the Chlouvānem, also has religious undertones, as “surrogates” in daily life of ''gælarīṇai'' (sg. ''gælarīṇa''), the purificatory baths that have to be taken before entering the most sacred areas of most Yunyalīlti shrines or monasteries - not taken in temples before daily liturgical services, but mandatory before most special occasions. | |||
* ''pudbhadvārma'' — bedroom (coll. ''pudbhǣšah'' or simply ''dvārma'') | * ''pudbhadvārma'' — bedroom (coll. ''pudbhǣšah'' or simply ''dvārma'') | ||
* ''yųljavyāh'' — kitchen | * ''yųljavyāh'' — kitchen | ||