squat toilet

English

American squat toilet with tank

Noun

squat toilet (plural squat toilets)

1. A toilet, usually consisting of a hole in the ground and sometimes a tank, which is used while squatting instead of sitting.

   Synonyms: (informal) squatter, Turkish toilet, French toilet

   • 2014, Piu Marie Eatwell, They Eat Horses, Don't They?: The Truth About the French, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 139:

     The curious thing about squat toilets is that, whereas Anglo-Saxons often refer to them as ‘French toilets’, the French themselves call them ‘Turkish toilets’ (toilettes à la turque or WC turcs). But in Turkey they are known as ‘Greek toilets’, while the Greeks insist they are ‘Bulgarian’.

Translations

toilet which is operated by squatting

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蹲式廁所／蹲式厕所 (dūnshì cèsuǒ), 蹲廁／蹲厕 (zh) (dūncè)

• Finnish: kyykkykäymälä
• French: toilettes à la turque f pl
• German: Hocktoilette f, Hockklo n, Stehklo n, Türkenklo n
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 和式トイレ (わしきといれ, washiki-toire), 和式便所 (わしきべんじょ, washiki-benjo)
• Persian: توالت ایرانی (tuâlet-e irâni, tuâlet irâni)
• Romanian: toaletă turcească f
• Russian: напо́льный унита́з m (napólʹnyj unitáz), туре́цкий унита́з m (turéckij unitáz)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• flush toilet
• sitting toilet

Further reading

• squat toilet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia