banya

From Russian ба́ня f (bánja). Doublet of bagnio, bain, and balaneion.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːnjə/

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.

• bayan

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

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

banya f (plural banyes)

1. (zoology) horn, antler
   • 1981, Jaume Sisa, “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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

banya

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

• “banya”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “banya”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

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”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒɲɒ]

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• Hyphenation: ba‧nya
• Rhymes: -ɲɒ

banya (plural banyák)

1. hag, harridan, witch

   Synonyms: boszorkány, boszorka

2. (obsolete) grandmother^[1]

   Synonyms: nagymama, nagyanya

• banya in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• banya in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

banya

1. to sweat, perspire, drop water

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

banya m or f (plural banyas)

1. banya (a Russian steam bath)