баня

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baňa, itself borrowed from Vulgar Latin baneum.

Dialectal meanings may descend from unrelated *bagňa (“moor, bog; brackish water”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbanʲɐ]

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• Rhymes: -anʲɐ
• Syllabification^(key): ба‧ня

ба́ня • (bánja) f (relational adjective ба́нски)

1. bath
   1. (nomen instrumenti) bathroom (place where one takes a bath)

      Synonyms: къпа́лня (kǎpálnja), (dated) ку́пел (kúpel)

   2. (nomen acti) bath, bathing (act of bathing oneself)
2. (dialectal) geothermal spring, wellhead; hot or mineral-rich water

   минерална баня ― mineralna banja ― balneum complex

• “баня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “баня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1895), “ба́нꙗ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 24
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “баня”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 32
• “банꙗ”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2026

• баян (bajan)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baňa, from Latin baneum (plural banea), variant of balneum, from Latin balneum, from Ancient Greek βαλανεῖον (balaneîon).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbanʲə]

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ба́ня • (bánja) f inan (genitive ба́ни, nominative plural ба́ни, genitive plural бань, relational adjective ба́нный, diminutive ба́нька)

1. banya
2. (public) bath
3. Turkish bath, steam bath

• ба́нник (bánnik)
• ба́нщик (bánščik), ба́нщица (bánščica)
• иди́ в ба́ню (idí v bánju)
• предба́нник (predbánnik)

• → English: banya
• → Japanese: バニャ (banya)
• → Kildin Sami: ба̄йна (bājna)
• → Yakut: баанньык (baanňïk)

From Proto-Slavic *baňa.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈbanʲɐ]

ба́ня • (bánja) f inan (genitive ба́ні, nominative plural ба́ні, genitive plural бань, relational adjective ба́нний)

1. bath
2. bathhouse
3. Turkish bath, steam bath
4. dome, cupola

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “баня”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka