חאמאם

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حمام (hamam), from Arabic حَمَّام (ḥammām).

Noun

חאמאם m (Hebrew spelling, Latin spelling hamam)

  1. bathhouse, hammam
    • 1838 May 1, La Vara‎, number 832, New York, page 6:
      […] תוב׳׳ו קי אסירקארסי פ׳׳ורסאדאמינטי אה איל חאמאם.
      […] tuvo ke aserkarse forsadamente a el hamam.
      […] [he] had to forcefully get close to the bathouse.

References
  • Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “ḥamam”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “jamám”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 250
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