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English

Etymology

From Russian ????? f (bánja). Doublet of bagnio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??nj?/

Noun

banya (plural banyas)

1. A type of steam bath, popular in Russia (and formerly also Alaska).

Translations

Anagrams

• bayan

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ba.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ba.?a/
• Rhymes: -a?a

Etymology 1

From Gaulish *bann?, from Proto-Celtic *band?. Cognate to Occitan bana.

Noun

banya f (plural banyes)

1. horn (animal’s head)

Derived terms

• banyut

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

banya

1. third-person singular present indicative form of banyar
2. second-person singular imperative form of banyar

Further reading

• “banya” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “banya” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “banya” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “banya” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b???]
• Hyphenation: ba?nya
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

banya (plural banyák)

1. hag, harridan, witch

Declension

Further reading

• banya in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• banya in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Portuguese

Noun

banya m or f (in variation) (plural banyas)

1. banya (a Russian steam bath)

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• banian, bannian

Etymology

From Portuguese baniano, from Arabic ????????? (baniy?n), from Gujarati ?????? (v??iyo, “merchant”), from Sanskrit ????? (v??ijá), from earlier ????? (va?íj, “merchant, trader”). The name appears to have been first bestowed popularly on a famous tree of this species growing near Bandar Abbas, under which the Bannians or Hindu traders settled at that port, had built a little pagoda. Doublet of bunnia.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?bæn.j?n/

Noun

banyan (plural banyans)

1. An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
2. A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
3. A type of loose gown worn in India.
4. (India) A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.
5. (Britain, Naval slang, dated) A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.

Synonyms

• (tropical Indian fig tree): banyan tree

Translations

See also

• Banyan#Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Banyan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References