sauna
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Finnish sauna. Doublet of stack.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsɔː.nə/, (respecting Finnish pronunciation) /ˈsaʊ.nə/
Audio (US): (file) - (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈsɑː.nə/
- Rhymes: -ɔːnə
Noun
[edit]sauna (plural saunas)
- A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
- The hotel has a sauna in the basement.
- The act of using a sauna.
- John had a sauna after his swim.
- Joanne went for a sauna after her swim.
- A public sauna.
- In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse or massage parlour.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 250:
- McPhail ran Maitland's brothels—knocking-shops in Maryhill, Riddrie, Dennistoun, and the more upscale saunas in the West End and city centre.
- (informal, figuratively) A very hot place or room.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]sauna (third-person singular simple present saunas, present participle saunaing, simple past and past participle saunaed)
- To use a sauna.
Translations
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Azerbaijani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna (definite accusative saunanı, plural saunalar)
Declension
[edit]Declension of sauna | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | sauna |
saunalar | ||||||
definite accusative | saunanı |
saunaları | ||||||
dative | saunaya |
saunalara | ||||||
locative | saunada |
saunalarda | ||||||
ablative | saunadan |
saunalardan | ||||||
definite genitive | saunanın |
saunaların |
Further reading
[edit]- “sauna” in Obastan.com.
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna f (plural saunes)
Further reading
[edit]- “sauna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.
Noun
[edit]sauna f
Declension
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna m (plural sauna's, diminutive saunaatje n)
- sauna
- 1926 January 26, "Lezing te Amsterdam van den heer Schuiling over Finland", Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (evening edition, D), page 2.
- Een deel der talrijke lichtbeelden had betrekking op Lönnrot en zijn beroemde Kalewala, en in verband daarmede kreeg de Sauna (badhuis) een beurt.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1926 January 26, "Lezing te Amsterdam van den heer Schuiling over Finland", Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (evening edition, D), page 2.
- (often diminutive) a session in a sauna
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna
Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna f (genitive singular saunu, plural saunur)
Declension
[edit]f1 | singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sauna | saunan | saunur | saunurnar |
accusative | saunu | saununa | saunur | saunurnar |
dative | saunu | saununi | saunum | saununum |
genitive | saunu | saununnar | sauna | saunanna |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *sakna, possibly 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
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna
- sauna
- Jos ei viina, terva ja sauna auta, niin tauti on kuolemaksi. (Finnish saying)
- An illness will kill you if booze, tar and sauna won't cure it.
- Any bath where sweating is part of the bathing process.
- turkkilainen sauna ― Turkish bath
- (figuratively) a very hot place
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sauna (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sauna | saunat | |
genitive | saunan | saunojen | |
partitive | saunaa | saunoja | |
illative | saunaan | saunoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sauna | saunat | |
accusative | nom. | sauna | saunat |
gen. | saunan | ||
genitive | saunan | saunojen saunain rare | |
partitive | saunaa | saunoja | |
inessive | saunassa | saunoissa | |
elative | saunasta | saunoista | |
illative | saunaan | saunoihin | |
adessive | saunalla | saunoilla | |
ablative | saunalta | saunoilta | |
allative | saunalle | saunoille | |
essive | saunana | saunoina | |
translative | saunaksi | saunoiksi | |
abessive | saunatta | saunoitta | |
instructive | — | saunoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Meronyms
[edit]Basic sauna vocabulary:
Derived terms
[edit]- hirsisauna
- höyrysauna
- infrapunasauna
- infrasauna
- joulusauna
- juhannussauna
- kalasauna
- lauantaisauna
- leirisauna
- lenkkisauna
- maasauna
- mallassauna
- mökkisauna
- niittysauna
- pihasauna
- puusauna
- rantasauna
- Sauna-aho
- saunaelämys
- saunaeriste
- saunaetiketti
- saunaharja
- saunahattu
- saunahullu
- saunahunaja
- saunailta
- saunaistuin
- saunajakkara
- saunajuoma
- saunajurtta
- saunakahvi
- saunakaiutin
- saunakaivo
- saunakalja
- saunakamari
- saunakiuas
- saunakiulu
- saunakukka
- saunakulttuuri
- Saunalahti
- saunalenkki
- saunaliike
- saunalyhty
- saunamaija
- saunamajuri
- saunamakkara
- saunamarkkinat
- saunamatka
- saunamatto
- saunamessut
- saunamittari
- saunamyssy
- Saunamäki
- saunamökki
- saunanhaltija
- saunanovi
- saunanpenkki
- saunaolut
- saunaosasto
- saunapalo
- saunapalvata
- saunapalvi
- saunapalvikinkku
- saunapata
- saunapirtti
- saunapolku
- saunapuhdas
- saunapuut
- saunapyyhe
- saunapäivä
- saunarakennus
- saunaranta
- saunaremontti
- saunaruoka
- saunasieni
- saunasuola
- saunatakki
- saunatie
- saunatonttu
- saunatuoksu
- saunatupa
- saunatyyny
- saunavaha
- saunavalaisin
- saunavasta
- saunavesi
- saunavieras
- saunavihta
- saunavuoro
- savusauna
- sekasauna
- selkäsauna
- sähkösauna
- talosauna
- telttasauna
- turpasauna
- tynnyrisauna
- yhteissauna
Descendants
[edit]- → English: sauna
- → French: sauna
- → German: Sauna
- → Norwegian Bokmål: sauna
- → Russian: са́уна (sáuna) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
[edit]- “sauna”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna m (plural saunas)
Further reading
[edit]- “sauna”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hausa
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]saunā̀ m or f (plural saunōnī, possessed form saunàn)
- fool, incompetent person
Ingrian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *sakna. Cognates include Finnish sauna and Estonian saun.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈsɑu̯nɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑu̯n]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈsɑu̯nɑ/, [ˈʃɑu̯nɑ]
- Rhymes: -ɑu̯n, -ɑu̯nɑ
- Hyphenation: sau‧na
Noun
[edit]sauna
- sauna, banya
- 1916, Volmari Porkka, quoting Tari loan kylästä, “1465. Soikkola, Viistinä, III336”, in Väinö Salminen, V. Alava, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot[2], volume III2, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, line 1:
- Sai miun saunaa emmoin,
- My mother got into my banya,
- 1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 27:
- Eli oli keltasuin cirkkulaisen poika, kutsuttii häntä Puudikka, eli hää saunan ikkunan pääl, ylimäisen nalicnikan takan, soojaas pesääs.
- There was a yellow-beaked young of a sparrow, he was called Puudikka, he lived on the window of a banya, behind the upper trim, in a warm nest.
- 2008, Inkeri[3], volume 4, number 69, St. Petersburg, page 13:
- Kel on koltkymment vootta, kel on 35, kel on 26 vootta, i, perkele, käyvät, tullaa humalas, evät... mitä höö söövät, miä vaa, mitä höö söövät! Saunaa pittää, halkoa kera ossettu. Mitälee pittää tehä.
- Who is thirty years old, who is 35, who is 26 years old, and, darn it, they go, they drink themselves silly, they don't, they eat nothing, only me, they eat nothing! When you go to the banya, one has to have bought the billets. One has to do something.
- (colloquial) beating
- antaa kellelee saunaa ― to give a beating to someone
Declension
[edit]Declension of sauna (type 3/kana, no gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | sauna | saunat |
genitive | saunan | saunoin |
partitive | saunaa | saunoja |
illative | saunaa | saunoi |
inessive | saunaas | saunois |
elative | saunast | saunoist |
allative | saunalle | saunoille |
adessive | saunaal | saunoil |
ablative | saunalt | saunoilt |
translative | saunaks | saunoiks |
essive | saunanna, saunaan | saunoinna, saunoin |
exessive1) | saunant | saunoint |
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (banya): (dialectal, obsolete) kyli
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Fedor Tumansky (1790) “сауна”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 691
- V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 10
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 508
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna f (plural saune)
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]sauna
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sáuna f (plural saunos) stress pattern 1
Declension
[edit]singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | sáuna | sáunos |
genitive (kilmininkas) | sáunos | sáunų |
dative (naudininkas) | sáunai | sáunoms |
accusative (galininkas) | sáuną | sáunas |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | sáuna | sáunomis |
locative (vietininkas) | sáunoje | sáunose |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | sáuna | sáunos |
References
[edit]- “sauna”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism; compare English sauna, French sauna, German Sauna, ultimately from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna f
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- sauna in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sauna in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -awnɐ
- Hyphenation: sau‧na
Noun
[edit]sauna f (plural saunas)
- sauna (room or a house designed for heat sessions)
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sȁuna f (Cyrillic spelling са̏уна)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “sauna”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Further reading
[edit]- sauna on the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia sh
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna f (related adjective saunový)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sauna”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauna f (plural saunas)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sauna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /saˈʔuna/ [sɐˈʔuː.n̪ɐ]
- Rhymes: -una
- Syllabification: sa‧u‧na
Adjective
[edit]sauna (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜂᜈ)
- of the old generation; of days long gone
- mga taong sauna ― people of the old generation
Derived terms
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.
Noun
[edit]sauna (definite accusative saunayı, plural saunalar)
Declension
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Nominative | sauna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | saunayı | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Definite accusative | saunayı | saunaları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | saunaya | saunalara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | saunada | saunalarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | saunadan | saunalardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | saunanın | saunaların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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