sauna

Borrowed from Finnish sauna. Doublet of stack.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔː.nə/, (respecting Finnish pronunciation) /ˈsaʊ.nə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːnə

sauna (plural saunas)

1. A room or a house designed for heat sessions.

   The hotel has a sauna in the basement.

2. The act of using a sauna.

   John had a sauna after his swim.

   Joanne went for a sauna after her swim.

3. A public sauna.
4. In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse.
5. (informal, figuratively) A very hot place or room.

• firebath

• banya
• hammam
• spa
• steam bath
• sudatorium
• sudatory
• Turkish bath

sauna (third-person singular simple present saunas, present participle saunaing, simple past and past participle saunaed)

1. To use a sauna.

Borrowed from Finnish sauna.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.na/

sauna f (plural saunes)

1. sauna

• “sauna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

sauna f

1. sauna

Borrowed from Finnish sauna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑu̯.naː/

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• Hyphenation: sau‧na
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯naː

sauna m (plural sauna's, diminutive saunaatje n)

1. 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.

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2. (often diminutive) a session in a sauna

• buitensauna
• huissauna

• stoombad

sauna

1. genitive/partitive/illative singular of saun

From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɑu̯nɑ]
• Hyphenation: sau‧na
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯nɑ
• Homophone: savna

sauna f (genitive singular saunu, plural saunur)

1. sauna

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑu̯nɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑu̯nɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑunɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sau‧na

sauna

1. 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 heal it.

2. Any bath where sweating is part of the bathing process.

   turkkilainen sauna ― Turkish bath

3. (figuratively) a very hot place

   Täällä on kuin saunassa.

   It's like a sauna in here.

   Synonyms: helvetti, pätsi

Basic sauna vocabulary:

• nouns: opin sauna, yleinen sauna
• verbs: saunoa, saunottaa, viedä saunan taakse

• → English: sauna
• → French: sauna
• → German: Sauna
• → Norwegian Bokmål: sauna
• → Russian: са́уна (sáuna) (see there for further descendants)

• asuna, nasua

IPA^(key): /so.na/

sauna m (plural saunas)

1. sauna

• “sauna”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /sáu.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sáu.nàː]

saunā̀ m or f (plural saunōnī, possessed form saunàn)

1. fool, incompetent person

From Proto-Finnic *sakna. Cognates include Finnish sauna and Estonian saun.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑu̯nɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑu̯n]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑu̯nɑ/, [ˈʃɑu̯nɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯n, -ɑu̯nɑ
• Hyphenation: sau‧na

sauna

1. sauna, banya

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 10
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 508

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.na/
• Rhymes: -awna
• Hyphenation: sàu‧na

sauna f (plural saune)

1. sauna

• bagno turco

• nasua

sauna

1. Rōmaji transcription of サウナ

Internationalism; compare English sauna, French sauna, German Sauna, ultimately from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.na/

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• Rhymes: -awna
• Syllabification: sau‧na

sauna f

1. sauna (sauna room or house)
2. sauna (act of using a sauna)

• sauna in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sauna in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -awnɐ
• Hyphenation: sau‧na

sauna f (plural saunas)

1. sauna (room or a house designed for heat sessions)

From Finnish sauna.

• IPA^(key): /sâuna/
• Hyphenation: sa‧u‧na

sȁuna f (Cyrillic spelling са̏уна)

1. sauna

• “sauna” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• sauna on the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sh

Derived from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

sauna f (genitive singular sauny, nominative plural sauny, genitive plural sáun, declension pattern of žena)

1. sauna

• saunový

• sauna in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

From Finnish sauna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsauna/ [ˈsau̯.na]
• Rhymes: -auna
• Syllabification: sau‧na

sauna f (plural saunas)

1. sauna

• baño turco
• temascal

• “sauna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From sa- +‎ una.

• Hyphenation: sa‧u‧na
• IPA^(key): /saˈʔuna/, [sɐˈʔu.nɐ]

sauna

1. of the old generation; of days long gone

   mga taong sauna

   people of the old generation

From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

sauna (definite accusative saunayı, plural saunalar)

1. sauna