# lavabo
## English
### Etymology

From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6 (Psalm 26:6, in the Hebrew and in most modern translations) which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (“I will wash”). The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ləˈveɪbəʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

lavabo (plural lavabos or lavaboes)
* (Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.
    Synonym: lavatory
* (Christianity) The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
** 1870, Daniel Rock, Textile Fabrics, page 203:These small liturgical towels got […] the name of Lavabo cloths or Lavaboes.
* A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.
    Synonym: washbasin
** 1885, Walter Horatio Peter, Marius the Epicurean, Bk. iv, Ch. xxiii:[…] the […] pontiff, as he […] moved his hands […] at the Lavabo, or at the various benedictions […]
* (architecture) A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
* (humorous, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom
** 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter XIV, in Strong Poision, page 177:Mr. Pond fussed out and she heard the door of the little lavabo in the passage open with a loud creak.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ "lavabo, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1902), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* ↑ "The Book of Psalms: Chapter 25" in the Latin Vulgate.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ləˈβa.βu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ləˈva.bo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [laˈva.bo]

### Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)
* lavabo, washbasin, sink
* toilet
    Synonym: vàter
* (metonymically) bathroom

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French lavabo, from Latin lavābō (“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative of lavō, lavāre (“wash, bathe”, verb).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

### Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabo's, diminutive lavabootje n)
* (Belgium) sink, washbasin

### References

van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “lavabo”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavābō (“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative of lavō, lavāre (“wash, bathe”, verb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.va.bo/
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)
* washbasin

#### Descendants

* → German: Lavabo
* → Turkish: lavabo
* → Vietnamese: la-va-bô

### Further reading

* “lavabo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Latin lavābō (“I will wash”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /laˈvabo/ [laˈfa.bo]
* Rhymes: -abo
* Syllabification: la‧va‧bo

### Noun

lavabo (plural lavabo-lavabo)
* (Catholicism) lavabo:
** a ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.
** the small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
** a washbasin, the one in a church used in the ritual.

### Further reading

* “lavabo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laˈva.bo/
* Rhymes: -abo
* Hyphenation: la‧và‧bo

### Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabi or invariable)
* sink, in particular of a bathroom
* lavabo

#### Synonyms

* lavandino

## Latin
### Verb

lavābō
* first-person singular future active indicative of lavō

## Norman
### Etymology

From Latin lavābō (“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative of lavō, lavāre (“wash, bathe”).

### Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)
* (Jersey) washbasin

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavābō (“I shall clean”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /laˈva.bu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /laˈva.bu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /laˈva.bo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɐˈva.bu/ [lɐˈva.βu]
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɐˈva.bu/ [lɐˈva.βu]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /lɐˈba.bu/ [lɐˈβa.βu]
* Rhymes: -abu
* Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

### Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)
* lavabo (washbasin, especially one used for ceremonious washing)
    Synonym: lavatório
* (chiefly in the plural) lavatory (room containing a toilet)
    Synonyms: casa de banho, banheiro, lavatório, WC

#### Related terms

* lavar

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laʋǎboː/
* Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

### Noun

lavàbō m (Cyrillic spelling лава̀бо̄)
* sink, washbasin
* lavabo

#### Related terms

* umivaonik

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavābō, first person singular future indicative of lavāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laˈbabo/ [laˈβ̞a.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -abo
* Syllabification: la‧va‧bo

### Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)
* bathroom sink, washbasin

#### See also

* lavamanos m

### Further reading

* “lavabo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Turkish
### Alternative forms

* lavobo (misspelling)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French lavabo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (standard) /laˈva.bo/, (some speakers) /ɫaˈva.bo/, (in fast speech) /ˈlaːbo/, /ˈɫaːbo/
* Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

### Noun

lavabo (definite accusative lavaboyu, plural lavabolar)
* washbasin
* (euphemistic) toilet
    Synonym: tuvalet

#### Derived terms

* lavabo açıcısı
* lavabo bataryası
* lavabo musluğu
* lavabolu
* lavabosuz

### Further reading

* “lavabo”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lavabo”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “lavabo”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lavabo”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2881