sauna

See also: Sauna

English

Etymology

From Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔː.nə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːnə

Noun

sauna ‎(plural saunas)

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

   The hotel has a sauna in the basement.

2. An act of using a sauna.

   John had a sauna after his swim.

3. A public sauna; a front for a brothel in some countries.

Translations

sauna room or house

• Arabic: سَاوْنَا f ‎(sāwnā)
• Armenian: սաունա ‎(sauna)
• Belarusian: сауна f ‎(sáuna)
• Bulgarian: сауна f ‎(sáuna)
• Catalan: sauna (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桑拿 (zh) ‎(sāngná), 桑拿浴 ‎(sāngnáyù), 三溫暖 (zh), 三温暖 (zh) ‎(sān-wēnnuǎn)

• Czech: sauna (cs) f
• Danish: sauna c
• Esperanto: saŭno
• Estonian: saun
• Faroese: sauna f
• Finnish: sauna (fi)
• French: sauna (fr) f
• Georgian: საუნა ‎(sauna)
• German: Sauna (de) f
• Greek: σάουνα (el) f ‎(sáouna), ατμόλουτρο (el) n ‎(atmóloutro)
• Hebrew: סאונה (he)
• Hindi: सॉना ‎(sonā)
• Hungarian: szauna (hu)
• Icelandic: sána (is) f, baðstofa (is) f, eimbað (is) n, gufubað (is) n

• Ido: sauno
• Interlingua: sauna
• Japanese: サウナ ‎(sauna)
• Korean: 사우나 (ko) ‎(sauna)
• Latgalian: pierts m
• Latvian: pirts (lv) m
• Mari:

  Western Mari: момоца ‎(momoca)

• Navajo: táchééh
• Norwegian: badstue f
• Persian: سونا (fa) ‎(sonâ)
• Polish: sauna (pl) f
• Portuguese: sauna (pt) f
• Romanian: saună f
• Russian: са́уна (ru) f ‎(sáuna), фи́нская ба́ня f ‎(fínskaja bánja)
• Serbo-Croatian: sauna (sh) f
• Skolt Sami: säu´nn
• Slovak: sauna f
• Spanish: sauna (es) m, f
• Swedish: bastu (sv) c, sauna (sv) c
• Thai: ซาวน่า ‎(saaonâa)
• Turkish: sauna (tr)
• Ukrainian: сауна f ‎(sáuna)

act of using a sauna

• Finnish: saunominen (fi), sauna (fi)
• German: Saunieren
• Greek: ατμόλουτρο (el) n ‎(atmóloutro)
• Polish: sauna (pl) f

• Portuguese: banho de sauna m
• Romanian: baie de abur f
• Swedish: bastande (sv) n, bastubadande n

Synonyms

• firebath

See also

• Turkish bath, hammam
• banya

Verb

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

1. To use a sauna.

Translations

to use a sauna

• Dutch: sauna (nl) m
• Finnish: saunoa (fi)
• French: sauna (fr) m
• German: saunieren (de)

• Hungarian: szaunázik
• Portuguese: tomar banho de sauna
• Spanish: sauna (es) f
• Swedish: basta (sv), bada bastu (sv)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

• (Eastern) IPA^(key): /ˈsawnə/
• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈsawna/

Noun

sauna f ‎(plural saunes)

1. sauna

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Czech

Etymology

From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

Noun

sauna f

1. sauna

Declension

Declension of sauna

	singular	plural
nominative	sauna	sauny
genitive	sauny	saun
dative	sauně	saunám
accusative	saunu	sauny
vocative	sauno	sauny
locative	sauně	saunách
instrumental	saunou	saunami

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Estonian

Noun

sauna

1. Genitive singular form of saun.
2. Partitive singular form of saun.
3. Illative singular form of saun.

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Faroese

Etymology

From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sauna f (genitive singular saunu, plural saunur)

1. sauna

Declension

Declension of sauna
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sauna	saunan	saunur	saunurnar
accusative	saunu	saununa	saunur	saunurnar
dative	saunu	saununi	saunum	saununum
genitive	saunu	saununnar	sauna	saunanna

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Finnish

(index sa)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sakna, an early Germanic loan from the same root as e.g. 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑu̯nɑ/
• Hyphenation: sau‧na
• Rhymes: -ɑunɑ

Noun

sauna

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

   turkkilainen sauna

   Turkish bath

Declension

Inflection of sauna (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
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 saunainrare
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
instructive		—	saunoin
abessive		saunatta	saunoitta
comitative		—	saunoineen

Derived terms

• nouns: opin sauna, yleinen sauna
• verbs: saunoa, saunottaa

Compounds

saunailta saunamajuri saunaolut

saunapalvi saunapyyhe saunatonttu

saunavihta savusauna selkäsauna

sähkösauna telttasauna

Meronyms

Basic sauna vocabulary:

jäähy kiuas lauteet

löyly löylyhuone löylykauha

pefletti pesuhuone pukuhuone

vasta vihta

Anagrams

• asuna

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Hausa

Noun

saunā̀ m, f ‎(plural saunoni)

1. fool, incompetent person

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Italian

Noun

sauna f ‎(plural saune)

1. sauna

See also

• bagno turco

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Japanese

Romanization

sauna

1. Rōmaji transcription of サウナ

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Polish

Etymology

From Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsawna/, [ˈs̪awn̪a]

Noun

sauna f

1. sauna

Declension

declension of sauna

	singular	plural
nominative	sauna	sauny
genitive	sauny	saun
dative	saunie	saunom
accusative	saunę	sauny
instrumental	sauną	saunami
locative	saunie	saunach
vocative	sauno	sauny

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -awna

Noun

sauna f (plural saunas)

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sȁuna f ‎(Cyrillic spelling са̏уна)

1. sauna

Declension

Declension of sauna

	singular	plural
nominative	sauna	saune
genitive	saune	sauna
dative	sauni	saunama
accusative	saunu	saune
vocative	sauno	saune
locative	sauni	saunama
instrumental	saunom	saunama

External links

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

References

• “sauna” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovak

Etymology

From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

Noun

sauna f ‎(genitive singular sauny, nominative plural sauny)

1. sauna

Declension

Declension of sauna

	singular	plural
nominative	sauna	sauny
genitive	sauny	sáun
dative	saune	saunám
accusative	saunu	sauny
locative	saune	saunách
instrumental	saunou	saunami

External links

• sauna in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Spanish

Noun

sauna f ‎(plural saunas)

1. sauna

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Votic

Etymology

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

Noun

sauna ‎(genitive saunaa, partitive [please provide])

1. sauna

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• "sauna" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat