sauna

See also: Sauna, saŭna, and saună

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna. Doublet of stack.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔː.nə/, (respecting Finnish pronunciation) /ˈsaʊ.nə/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • 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. 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.

Synonyms

Translations

See also

Verb

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

  1. To use a sauna.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation

Noun

sauna f (plural saunes)

  1. sauna

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed 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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑu̯.naː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: sau‧na
  • Rhymes: -ɑu̯naː

Noun

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.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. (often diminutive) a session in a sauna

Derived terms
  • buitensauna
  • huissauna

See also

Estonian

Noun

sauna

  1. genitive/partitive/illative singular of saun

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

Finnish

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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
Possessive forms of sauna (type kala)
possessor singular plural
1st person saunani saunamme
2nd person saunasi saunanne
3rd person saunansa

Meronyms

Basic sauna vocabulary:

Derived terms

Compounds

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

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /so.na/

Noun

sauna m (plural saunas)

  1. sauna

Further reading

Hausa

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

Noun

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

  1. fool, incompetent person

Ingrian
Sauna.

Etymology

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

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

Noun

sauna

  1. sauna, banya

Declension
Declension of sauna (type 3/kana, no gradation)
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.

Derived terms

References
  • 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

Italian

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

Noun

sauna f (plural saune)

  1. sauna

See also

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

sauna

  1. Rōmaji transcription of サウナ

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsaw.na/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -awna
  • Syllabification: sau‧na

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

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.nɐ/ [ˈsaʊ̯.nɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.na/ [ˈsaʊ̯.na]

  • Rhymes: -awnɐ
  • Hyphenation: sau‧na

Noun

sauna f (plural saunas)

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

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

References
  • “sauna” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Further reading

Slovak

Etymology

From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

Noun

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

  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

Derived terms
  • saunový

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Finnish sauna.

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

Noun

sauna f (plural saunas)

  1. sauna

See also

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

From sa- +‎ una.

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

Adjective

sauna

  1. of the old generation; of days long gone
    mga taong sauna
    people of the old generation

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

From Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic *sakna.

Noun

sauna (definite accusative saunayı, plural saunalar)

  1. sauna

Declension
Inflection
Nominative sauna
Definite accusative saunayı
Singular Plural
Nominative sauna saunalar
Definite accusative saunayı saunaları
Dative saunaya saunalara
Locative saunada saunalarda
Ablative saunadan saunalardan
Genitive saunanın saunaların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular saunam saunalarım
2nd singular saunan saunaların
3rd singular saunası saunaları
1st plural saunamız saunalarımız
2nd plural saunanız saunalarınız
3rd plural saunaları saunaları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular saunamı saunalarımı
2nd singular saunanı saunalarını
3rd singular saunasını saunalarını
1st plural saunamızı saunalarımızı
2nd plural saunanızı saunalarınızı
3rd plural saunalarını saunalarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular saunama saunalarıma
2nd singular saunana saunalarına
3rd singular saunasına saunalarına
1st plural saunamıza saunalarımıza
2nd plural saunanıza saunalarınıza
3rd plural saunalarına saunalarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular saunamda saunalarımda
2nd singular saunanda saunalarında
3rd singular saunasında saunalarında
1st plural saunamızda saunalarımızda
2nd plural saunanızda saunalarınızda
3rd plural saunalarında saunalarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular saunamdan saunalarımdan
2nd singular saunandan saunalarından
3rd singular saunasından saunalarından
1st plural saunamızdan saunalarımızdan
2nd plural saunanızdan saunalarınızdan
3rd plural saunalarından saunalarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular saunamın saunalarımın
2nd singular saunanın saunalarının
3rd singular saunasının saunalarının
1st plural saunamızın saunalarımızın
2nd plural saunanızın saunalarınızın
3rd plural saunalarının saunalarının
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