# banya
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɑːnjə/

### Noun

banya (plural banyas)
* 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.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* bayan

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

banya f (plural banyes)
* (zoology) horn, antler
** 1981, Jaume Sisa (lyrics and music), “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)
* (zoology) feeler, antenna
* horn (material)
* (technology) arcing horn

##### Derived terms

* banya de cabra
* banya de cérvol
* banya de gasela
* banyabaix
* banyada
* banyarriquer
* banyat
* banyegar
* banyer
* banyeta
* banyó
* banyolí
* banyot
* banyut
* embanyat
* fer banyes
* portar banyes
* posar banyes

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

banya
* inflection of banyar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɒɲɒ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ba‧nya
* Rhymes: -ɲɒ

### Noun

banya (plural banyák)
* hag, harridan, witch
    Synonyms: boszorkány, boszorka
* (obsolete) grandmother
    Synonyms: nagymama, nagyanya

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ banya in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* banya in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: 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).

## Nyunga
### Verb

banya
* to sweat, perspire, drop water

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Noun

banya m or f (plural banyas)
* banya (a Russian steam bath)