banya

See also: Banya, bánya, banyà, and bǎnyā

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːnjə/

Noun

a traditional Russian banya

banya (plural banyas)

1. A type of steam bath, popular in Russia (and in some parts of Alaska as well).
   • 1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN:

     The Russian public steam bath (banya) is a cultural hybrid which borrows freely from the Finnish sauna and the Turkish political detention centre.

Translations

a Russian steam bath

• Abkhaz: аҳамам (aḥamam), абана (abana)
• Armenian: բաղնիք (hy) (baġnikʻ)
• Bashkir: мунса (munsa)
• Belarusian: ла́зня f (láznja), ба́ня f (bánja)
• Bulgarian: ба́ня (bg) f (bánja)
• Catalan: bània f
• Chuvash: мунча (munč̬a)
• Dutch: banja f
• Finnish: venäläinen sauna, banja (fi)
• French: bania (fr) f, banya (fr) f
• Georgian: აბანო (ka) (abano)
• German: Banja (de) f
• Hungarian: gőzfürdő (hu)
• Italian: bania f
• Japanese: バニャ (banya)
• Kalmyk: бань (banʹ)
• Kazakh: монша (monşa)
• Korean: 바냐 (banya)
• Ossetian: абана (abana)
• Polish: bania (pl) f
• Portuguese: banya m or f
• Russian: ба́ня (ru) f (bánja)
• Sami:

  Kildin Sami: ба̄йна (bājna)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бања f

  Roman: banja (sh) f

• Turkish: banya
• Udmurt: мунчо (munćo)
• Ukrainian: ла́зня (uk) f (láznja), ба́ня (uk) f (bánja)
• Yakut: баанньык (baannyık)

Anagrams

• bayan

Catalan

FWOTD – 26 August 2023

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈba.ɲə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈba.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -aɲa

Etymology 1

From Gaulish *bannā, from Proto-Celtic *bandā. Cognate to Occitan bana.

Noun

banya f (plural banyes)

1. (zoology) horn, antler
   • 1981, Jaume Sisa (lyrics and music), “Nit de Sant Joan”:

     Si mireu les flames del foc de Sant Joan / Li veureu les banyes, el barret i els guants

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (zoology) feeler, antenna
3. horn (material)
4. (technology) arcing horn

Derived terms

• banya de cabra
• banya de cérvol
• banya de gasela
• banyabaix
• banyada
• banyarriquer
• banyat
• banyegar
• banyer
• banyeta
• banyó
• banyolí
• banyot
• banyut
• embanyat
• fer banyes
• portar banyes
• posar banyes

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

banya

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

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, 2024
• “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

Etymology

First attested in 1723. A result of an incorrect analysis of the word jobanya, which is from job (“better”, obsolete form of jobb, comparative of jó) +‎ anya (“mother”). Compare the obsolete jó banya (“grandmother”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒɲɒ]

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ba‧nya
• Rhymes: -ɲɒ

Noun

banya (plural banyák)

1. hag, harridan, witch

   Synonyms: boszorkány, boszorka

2. (obsolete) grandmother^[1]

   Synonyms: nagymama, nagyanya

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	banya	banyák
accusative	banyát	banyákat
dative	banyának	banyáknak
instrumental	banyával	banyákkal
causal-final	banyáért	banyákért
translative	banyává	banyákká
terminative	banyáig	banyákig
essive-formal	banyaként	banyákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	banyában	banyákban
superessive	banyán	banyákon
adessive	banyánál	banyáknál
illative	banyába	banyákba
sublative	banyára	banyákra
allative	banyához	banyákhoz
elative	banyából	banyákból
delative	banyáról	banyákról
ablative	banyától	banyáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	banyáé	banyáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	banyáéi	banyákéi

Possessive forms of banya
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	banyám	banyáim
2nd person sing.	banyád	banyáid
3rd person sing.	banyája	banyái
1st person plural	banyánk	banyáink
2nd person plural	banyátok	banyáitok
3rd person plural	banyájuk	banyáik

Further reading

• banya in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). 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 2024)

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Verb

banya

1. to sweat, perspire, drop water

References

• 1839, George Grey, Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (Perth gazette and Western Australian journal)

Portuguese

Noun

banya m or f (plural banyas)

1. banya (a Russian steam bath)