sauna
English
/ˈsɔː.nə/
noun
Definitions
- A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
- The act of using a sauna.
- A public sauna; a front for a brothel in some countries.
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish sauna (sauna).
Origin
Finnish
sauna
Gloss
sauna
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cryosauna English
- saunalike English
- joulusauna Finnish
- kalasauna Finnish
- lauantaisauna Finnish
- leirisauna Finnish
- maasauna Finnish
- mallassauna Finnish
- niittysauna Finnish
- puusauna Finnish
- rantasauna Finnish
- sauna Finnish
- saunaharja Finnish
- saunakukka Finnish
- saunamaija Finnish
- saunamakkara Finnish
- saunapalo Finnish
- saunapalvikinkku Finnish
- saunapata Finnish
- saunapirtti Finnish
- saunapolku Finnish
- saunapuut Finnish
- saunaranta Finnish
- saunasieni Finnish
- saunatakki Finnish
- saunatie Finnish
- saunatonttu Finnish
- saunavasta Finnish
- saunio Finnish
- saunoa Finnish
- savusauna Finnish
- selkäsauna Finnish
- sähkösauna Finnish
- turpasauna Finnish
- Sauna German
- szauna Hungarian
- sauna Dutch, Flemish
- сауна Russian
- sauna Spanish, Castilian
- サウナ Japanese
- sauna Polish
- sauna Czech
- sauna Serbo-Croatian
- sauna Catalan, Valencian
- σάουνα Greek (modern)
- sauna Faroese
- *sakna Proto-Finnic
- 桑拿 Chinese
- sauna Slovak
- sauna Votic