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Tabo (hygiene) The timba (pail) and the tabo (dipper) are two essentials in Philippine bathrooms and bathing areas. The tabò (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈtaːbɔʔ]) is the traditional hygiene tool primarily for cleansing, bathing, and cleaning the floor of the bathroom in the Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei ...
Bring house [26] — Take-out food; transliterated from Tagalog dala sa bahay. [26] Brown joke [16] — toilet humor; jokes about excretory functions. Brownout [27] [28] — A power outage. This is shared with Hong Kong English and Australian English. Buko [5] — coconut. From Tagalog. Buko juice [5] — coconut juice; Bunso — Youngest ...
A toilet[ n 1 ] is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human urine and feces, and sometimes toilet paper, usually for disposal. Flush toilets use water, while dry or non-flush toilets do not. They can be designed for a sitting position popular in Europe and North America with a toilet seat, with additional considerations for those with ...
Bahay na bato. The Rizal Shrine in Calamba is an example of bahay na bato. The báhay na bató (Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Visayan languages as baláy na bató or balay nga bato, is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. It is an updated version of the traditional bahay kubo of the ...
Bathroom. A bathroom is a room in which people wash their bodies or parts thereof. It can contain one or more of the following plumbing fixtures: a shower, a bathtub, a bidet, and a sink (also known as a wash basin in the UK). The inclusion of a toilet is common. There are also specific toilet rooms, only containing a toilet (most often ...
Aklanon has 21 phonemes. There are 17 consonants: p, t, k, b, d, g, m, n, ng, s, h, l, r, w, y, the glottal stop ʔ, and the voiced velar fricative ɣ.There are six vowels: the three native vowels i, a, and u, which are typical for a Bisayan vowel inventory, the additional e and o for loanwords and common nouns, and a distinct phoneme argued by Zorc (2005) to be a close-mid back unrounded ...
A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, water closet (WC); see also toilet names) is a toilet that disposes of human waste (principally urine and feces) by using the force of water to channel it through a drainpipe to another location for treatment, either nearby or at a communal facility.
Hand washing (or handwashing), also known as hand hygiene, is the act of cleaning one's hands with soap or handwash and water to remove viruses / bacteria / microorganisms, dirt, grease, and other harmful or unwanted substances stuck to the hands. Drying of the washed hands is part of the process as wet and moist hands are more easily ...