different between steam vs banya

English

Etymology

From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English st?am (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin f?mus (“smoke, steam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?m/

Noun

steam (usually uncountable, plural steams)

1. The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
2. Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
3. The act of cooking by steaming

4. (figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
   • 1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen (page 129)

     Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.

5. (figuratively) Pent-up anger.

6. A steam-powered vehicle.
7. Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
8. (obsolete) Any exhalation.
9. (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.

Synonyms

• (a steam-powered vehicle): steamer

Antonyms

• (fencing): electric

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

steam (third-person singular simple present steams, present participle steaming, simple past and past participle steamed)

1. (cooking, transitive) To cook with steam.

2. (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.

3. (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O're his warm blood, that steams into the air.
4. (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Unsuccessfulness of Experiments

     the dissolved amber was plainly discernable swimming like a thin film upon the surface of the liquor, whence, little by little, it steamed away into the air.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.

7. (intransitive) To be covered with condensed water vapor.

8. (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
9. (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
10. (obsolete) To exhale.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cook

Derived terms

• asteam
• steamer
• steaming
• steam up

Translations

Adjective

steam (not comparable)

1. Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.

Anagrams

• AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, Satem, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, meats, metas, satem, stame, tames, teams

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *staumaz, compare also Dutch stoom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæ???m/

Noun

st?am m

1. steam (water vapor)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *staumaz.

Noun

steam c (no plural)

1. steam

   Synonym: stoom

Further reading

• “stoom”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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)