bathhouse

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath +‎ house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Bokmål badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Nynorsk badehus (“bathhouse”), Swedish badhus (“bathhouse”).

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Noun

bathhouse (plural bathhouses)

1. A building with baths for communal use.
   • 2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood:

     […] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.

   • 2019 March 16, “North China landslide knocks over homes, killing 7”, in AP News‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-06-26‎^[2]:

     The landslide hit Xiangning county in Shanxi province early Friday evening, provincial authorities said. Two residential buildings, home to a total of 14 households, and a public bathhouse collapsed under the weight of the falling earth.

2. A building where swimmers can change clothes.
3. A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with bathouse / bat-house / bat house (“a shelter for bats”).

Derived terms

• Bathhouse Barry

Translations

building with baths for communal use

• Abkhaz: аҳамам (aḥamam), абана (abana)
• Arabic: حَمَّام (ar) m (ḥammām)
• Armenian: բաղնիք (hy) (baġnikʻ)
• Azerbaijani: hamam (az), hamamxana
• Bashkir: мунса (munsa)
• Belarusian: ла́зня f (láznja), ба́ня f (bánja)
• Bulgarian: ба́ня (bg) f (bánja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 澡堂 (zh) (zǎotáng), 浴堂 (zh) (yùtáng), 浴池 (zh) (yùchí)

• Chuvash: мунча (munč̬a)
• Czech: lázně (cs) f pl
• Danish: badehus n
• Dutch: badhuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: banejo
• Estonian: avalik saun
• Finnish: kylpylä (fi)
• French: bains (fr) m pl
• Galician: baño (gl) m
• Georgian: აბანო (ka) (abano)
• German: Badehaus (de) n, Bad (de) n, Badeanstalt (de) f
• Greek: λουτρώνας (el) m (loutrónas), βαλανείο (el) n (valaneío)

  Ancient Greek: λουτρών m (loutrṓn), βαλανεῖον n (balaneîon)

• Hebrew: מרחץ \ מֶרְחָץ (he) m (merkháts)
• Hindi: ग़ुस्लख़ाना m (ġuslaxānā)
• Hungarian: fürdő (hu)
• Japanese: 浴場 (ja) (よくじょう, yokujō), 銭湯 (ja) (せんとう, sentō)
• Kazakh: монша (monşa)
• Korean: 목욕탕(沐浴湯) (ko) (mogyoktang)
• Kyrgyz: мончо (ky) (monco)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: חאמאם

  Roman: ḥamam

• Lao: ຫໍສົງນ້ຳ (hǭ song nam), ຫໍສົງ (hǭ song)
• Latin: balneae f pl
• Latvian: pirts (lv) m
• Lithuanian: pirtis m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Baadhuus n, Boodhuus n

• Macedonian: ба́ња f (bánja)
• Nogai: амам (amam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: badehus n

  Nynorsk: badehus n

• Old English: bæþhūs n
• Ossetian: абана (abana)
• Persian: گرمابه (fa) (garmâbe), حمام (fa) (hammâm)
• Polish: łaźnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: casa de banho (pt) f, terma (pt) f
• Russian: ба́ня (ru) f (bánja)
• Sami:

  Kildin Sami: ба̄йна (bājna)

• Spanish: casa de baños f
• Swedish: badhus (sv) n
• Tajik: ҳаммом (hammom)
• Tatar: мунча (tt) (munça)
• Thai: ห้องอาบน้ำ
• Turkish: banyo (tr), hamam (tr)
• Turkmen: hammam
• Ukrainian: ла́зня (uk) f (láznja), ба́ня (uk) f (bánja)
• Uyghur: سەراپ (serap), ھاممام (hammam), مۇنچا (muncha)
• Uzbek: hammom (uz), moʻrcha (uz)
• Yakut: суунурҕан (suunurğan)

building where swimmers change clothes

• Macedonian: соблекува́лна f (soblekuválna)
• Polish: szatnia (pl) f, przebieralnia f
• Portuguese: vestiário m
• Russian: раздева́лка (ru) f (razdeválka), раздева́льня (ru) f (razdeválʹnja)
• Ukrainian: перевдяга́льня f (perevdjahálʹnja)