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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna. Doublet of stack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??.n?/, (respecting Finnish pronunciation) /?sa?.n?/
• Rhymes: -??n?

Noun

sauna (plural saunas)

1. A room or a house designed for heat sessions.

   The hotel has a sauna in the basement.

2. The act of using a sauna.

   John had a sauna after his swim.

3. A public sauna.
4. In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse.

Synonyms

• firebath

See also

• banya
• hammam
• spa
• steam bath
• sudatorium
• sudatory
• Turkish bath

Translations

Verb

sauna (third-person singular simple present saunas, present participle saunaing, simple past and past participle saunaed)

1. To use a sauna.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?saw.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?saw.na/

Noun

sauna f (plural saunes)

1. sauna

Further reading

• “sauna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

Noun

sauna f

1. sauna

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?u?.na?/
• Hyphenation: sau?na
• Rhymes: -?u?na?

Noun

sauna m (plural sauna's, diminutive saunaatje n)

1. sauna
   • 1926 January 26, "Lezing te Amsterdam van den heer Schuiling over Finland", Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (evening edition, D), page 2.

2. (often diminutive) a session in a sauna

Derived terms

• buitensauna
• huissauna

See also

• stoombad

Estonian

Noun

sauna

1. genitive/partitive/illative singular of saun

Faroese

Etymology

From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?u?n?]
• Hyphenation: sau?na
• Rhymes: -?u?n?
• Homophone: savna

Noun

sauna f (genitive singular saunu, plural saunur)

1. sauna

Declension

Finnish

(index sa)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sakna, borrowed from early Proto-Germanic *stakna- (later *stakkaz, whence English stack). Cognates include Estonian saun, Karelian soakna. Older sense "winter dwelling, a pit dug into snow for temporary shelter", compare Northern Sami suovdnji (“pit dug in snow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?u?n?/, [?s??u?n?]
• Rhymes: -?un?
• Syllabification: sau?na

Noun

sauna

1. sauna
2. Any bath where sweating is part of the bathing process.

   turkkilainen sauna

   Turkish bath

Declension

Derived terms

• nouns: opin sauna, yleinen sauna
• verbs: saunoa, saunottaa

Compounds

Meronyms

Basic sauna vocabulary:

Descendants

• ? English: sauna
• ? German: Sauna
• ? Russian: ?????? (sáuna) (see there for further descendants)

Anagrams

• asuna, nasua

Hausa

Noun

saun?? m or f (plural saun?n?, possessed form saunàn)

1. fool, incompetent person

Ingrian

Noun

sauna

1. bath-house

Italian

Noun

sauna f (plural saune)

1. sauna

See also

• bagno turco

Japanese

Romanization

sauna

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Polish

Etymology

From Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?saw.na/

Noun

sauna f

1. sauna

Declension

Further reading

• sauna in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -awna

Noun

sauna f (plural saunas)

1. sauna (room or a house designed for heat sessions)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sâuna/
• Hyphenation: sa?u?na

Noun

s?una f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. sauna

Declension

References

• “sauna” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Further reading

• sauna on the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sh

Slovak

Etymology

From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

Noun

sauna f (genitive singular sauny, nominative plural sauny, genitive plural sáun, declension pattern of žena)

1. sauna

Declension

Derived terms

• saunový

Further reading

• sauna in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sauna/, [?sau?.na]

Noun

sauna f (plural saunas)

1. sauna

See also

• baño turco
• temascal

Votic

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

Noun

sauna (genitive saunaa, partitive [please provide])

1. sauna

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• "sauna" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

English

Etymology 1

The term is derived from the name of the Belgian town of Spa, where since medieval times illnesses caused by iron deficiency were treated by drinking chalybeate (iron-bearing) spring water. In 16^th century England the old Roman ideas of medicinal bathing were revived at towns like Bath, and in 1571 William Slingsby who had been to the Belgian town (which he called Spaw) discovered a chalybeate spring in Yorkshire. He built an enclosed well at what became known as Harrogate, the first resort in England for drinking medicinal waters, then in 1596 Dr. Timothy Bright called the resort The English Spaw, beginning the use of the word Spa as a generic description rather than as the place name of the Belgian town. At first this term referred specifically to resorts for water drinking rather than bathing, but this distinction was gradually lost and many spas offer external remedies.

There are various stories about the origin of the name. A Belgian spring of iron-bearing water was called Espa from the Walloon term for "fountain", and was used in 1326 as a cure by an iron master with such success that he founded a health resort that developed into the town, though it has been suggested that this term may be derived from the name of the resort. Some have suggested that the town's name can be ultimately sourced from Latin spargere (“to scatter, sprinkle, or moisten”), though this derivation is problematic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sp??/
  • (UK, obsolete) IPA^(key): /?sp??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sp?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?sp??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

spa (plural spas)

1. A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.
2. A trendy or fashionable resort.
3. A health club.
4. A hot tub.

Synonyms

• health club
• resort

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• caldarium
• pump room

Etymology 2

Shortened form of spastic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spæ/

Noun

spa (plural spas)

1. (Ireland, slang) A clumsy person (see spastic)
2. (Ireland, slang) An idiot
3. (Ireland, slang) A gobshite

Anagrams

• APS, APs, ASP, PAS, PAs, PSA, Pas, Psa., SAP, asp, pas, s.ap., sap

Dutch

Etymology 1

From earlier spade, from Middle Dutch spade, from Old Dutch *spado, from Proto-Germanic *spadô.

Alternative forms

• spade

Noun

spa m (plural spaden, diminutive spaatje n)

1. spade

Etymology 2

From the Spa brand of mineral water, which originates from the Belgian town of Spa. The compound spawater is attested as early as the 17th century, however.

Noun

spa m (plural spa's, diminutive spaatje n)

1. mineral water

Etymology 3

From earlier spade, from Middle Dutch spade, from Old Dutch *sp?di, from Proto-Germanic *sp?diz. Cognate with German spät.

Alternative forms

• spade

Adjective

spa (comparative spader, superlative spaadst)

1. (obsolete) late

Inflection

Synonyms

• laat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• spada
• spade

Etymology

From the noun spade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp??/

Verb

spa (present tense spar, past tense spadde, past participle spadd or spadt, present participle spadande, imperative spa)

1. to use a spade or shovel, to dig, to shovel

References

• “spa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa/

Noun

spa f (plural spe)

1. sword

Portuguese

Noun

spa m (plural spas)

1. spa (health resort near a spring)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English spa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?pa/, [es?pa]

Noun

spa f (plural spas)

1. spa

   Synonym: balneario