bath

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: bäth, IPA(key): /bɑːθ/ (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA(key): [bɑːθ] (North India) IPA(key): [bäːt̪ʰ] (South India) IPA(key): [bäːt̪] (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /bɐːθ/ enPR: băth, IPA(key): /bæθ/ (US, Canada) IPA(key): [bæθ~bɛəθ~beəθ] (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): [baθ~bäθ] Rhymes: -ɑːθ, -æθ Homophone: barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting) === Etymology 1 === From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe. Cognate with Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish bad (“bath”), Faroese and Icelandic bað (“bath”), German Bad (“bath”). ==== Noun ==== bath (plural baths) A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. A building or area where bathing occurs. (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom. The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath. Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this. An act of immersing the body in a specified substance, especially for hygiene, pleasure, or wellness, or a facility for this: e.g. mud bath, steam bath. The body of liquid one bathes in. (by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed. ===== Usage notes ===== Etymology 1 sense 4 is usually to take a bath (US) or to have a bath (UK, General Australian). See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take. ===== Synonyms ===== bain (obsolete) ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Lingala: báfu → Welsh: bàth ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== bath (third-person singular simple present baths, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed) (transitive, Commonwealth) To wash a person or animal in a bath. (intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Hebrew בַּת (baṯ). ==== Noun ==== bath (plural baths) (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons). 1769, Bible (KJV), Ezekiel, 45:10–11: Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. ===== Meronyms ===== (liquid volume): log (1⁄72 bath); cab, kab (1⁄18 bath); hin (1⁄6 bath); cor, kor, homer, chomer (10 baths) ===== Translations ===== === References === "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online === Anagrams === BTHA, Bhat, baht == Cornish == === Etymology 1 === Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Celtic *batto-. Cognate with Welsh bath. ==== Noun ==== bath m (plural bathow) coin ===== Derived terms ===== batha (“to mint”) bathva (“mint (building)”) === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from English bath. ==== Noun ==== bath m (plural bathys) bath ===== Derived terms ===== badhya (“to bathe”) === Mutation === == French == === Etymology === From English proper noun Bath where this paper was originally made. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bat/ === Noun === bath m (plural baths) English high quality letter paper popular in the 19th century === Adjective === bath (plural baths) (dated) super, great, smashing; beautiful, fine, good, pleasant === Further reading === “bath”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Old English bæþ, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą. ==== Alternative forms ==== baathe, bathth, batth, baþ baþþ, bæð, beað, beð (Early Middle English) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /baθ/ Rhymes: -aθ ==== Noun ==== bath (plural bathes or (early) baðen) A bath (body of liquid for bathing): A medicinal or curative bath. A spiritually cleansing bath. (alchemy, rare) A bath for distilling water. A bathhouse; a place for bathing. A bathing (process of having a bath) ===== Related terms ===== Bathe bathen bathynge bethen ===== Descendants ===== English: bath Scots: bath ===== References ===== “bath, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 July 2018. === Etymology 2 === ==== Determiner ==== bath (Northern) alternative form of bothe (“both”) ==== Pronoun ==== bath (Northern) alternative form of bothe (“both”) ==== Conjunction ==== bath (Northern) alternative form of bothe (“both”) == Welsh == === Etymology 1 === Probably from Proto-Celtic *batto-; according to the GPC, possibly related to Latin battuo (“I fight, pound, beat (up)”), though the semantics are far from certain. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /baːθ/ Rhymes: -aːθ ==== Noun ==== bath m (plural bathau) (obsolete) kind, sort Synonyms: math, siort, teip stamp, coin ===== Derived terms ===== bathdy (“mint”) bathol (“coined, minted”) bathu (“to mint”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== bath m (plural baths) alternative spelling of bàth (“bath, bath tub”) === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== bath m (plural baths) alternative spelling of bàth (“bath (unit of liquid volume)”) === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bath”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies == Yola == === Alternative forms === bat === Etymology === From Middle English bat, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bat̪/, /bat/ === Noun === bath (plural bathès) bat, stick ==== Derived terms ==== cambaute === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25