بانیو

Ottoman Turkish

بانیو

Alternative forms

• بانه (bana), بانیه (banya)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bagno (“bathroom”), itself from Latin balneum (“bath”), ultimately from Ancient Greek βαλανεῖον (balaneîon, “bath, bathroom”).

Noun

بانیو • (banyo)

1. bathroom, a room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and usually a toilet

   Synonym: حمام (hamam)

Descendants

• Turkish: banyo
• → Armenian: պանեօ (paneō)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “banyo”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 463
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بانیو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 250
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “banio”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 343
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 43
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “bath”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 41a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “banyo”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بانیو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 337