Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

• (Glagolitic): ⰱⰰⱀⱑ ‎(banja)

Noun

банꙗ • ‎(banja) f

1. bathing place
2. (figuratively) baptism, spiritual revival

References

• Trajanov, Valentin (1999–2009), “банꙗ”, in Starobǎlgarski rečnik (in Bulgarian), Sofia

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *banja.

Noun

банꙗ ‎(banja) f

1. bath, bathing place

Descendants

• Russian: ба́ня ‎(bánja)
  • → English: banya
• Ukrainian: ба́ня ‎(bánja)

References

• Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), “банꙗ”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 41