Bath

See also: bath, bàth, baþ, bað, and Ba'th

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English Bathe, from Old English Baþan, from the dative case of bæþ.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɑːθ/
• (South West England) IPA^(key): /bæːθ/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /bæθ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bæθ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːθ, -æːθ, -æθ
• Homophone: bath

Proper noun

Bath

1. A city in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England, famous for its baths fed by a hot spring.
2. A village in the Netherlands.
3. A village in New Brunswick, Canada.
4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A village in Illinois.
   2. An unincorporated community in Indiana.
   3. A city, the county seat of Sagadahoc County, Maine; named for the city in England.
   4. A town in New Hampshire; named for William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath.
   5. A town and village, the county seat of Steuben County, New York.
   6. A town in North Carolina.
   7. A town in Ohio.
   8. A borough in Pennsylvania; named for the city in England.
5. A town and mineral spring in Saint Thomas parish, Jamaica; named for the city in England.
6. A surname.

Derived terms

• Bath and North East Somerset
• Bath brick
• Bath chair
• Bath County
• Bathford
• Bath metal
• Bath note
• Bath Spa
• Bath stone
• Bath white

 

Translations

City in England

• Arabic: باث (bāṯ)
• Aramaic: ܒܐܬ
• Armenian: Բաթ (Batʻ)
• Azerbaijani: Bat
• Belarusian: Бат (Bat)
• Bengali: ব্যাঠ (bêṭh)
• Bulgarian: Бат (Bat)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 巴斯 (baa¹ si¹)

  Mandarin: 巴斯 (zh) (Bā sī)

• Georgian: ბათი (bati)
• Greek: Μπαθ (el) (Bath)
• Hebrew: באת'
• Hindi: बैथ (baith)
• Japanese: バース
• Kazakh: Бат (Bat)
• Korean: 바스 (baseu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بات (ckb) (bat)

• Latin: Aquae Sulis f pl
• Latvian: Bāta
• Lithuanian: Batas
• Mazanderani: باث
• Mingrelian: ბათი (bati)
• Norman: Ba
• Old English: Baðanceaster (ang)
• Persian: باث
• Russian: Бат (ru) (Bat)
• Thai: บาธ (bàat)
• Turkish: Bath
• Ukrainian: Бат (Bat)
• Urdu: باتھ (bāth)
• Welsh: Caerfaddon (cy)
• Western Panjabi: باتھ

Etymology 2

Nonstandard transliteration of Arabic بَعْث (baʕṯ, “resurrection”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæθ/, /bɑːθ/
• Rhymes: -æθ, -ɑːθ
• Homophone: bath

Proper noun

Bath

1. (rare, nonstandard, usually in the phrase ‘Bath Party’) Alternative form of Baath

Derived terms

• Bathism
• Bathist
• debathification

Anagrams

• BTHA, Bhat, baht

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as insula de boestenbare dicta in 1235. Derived from Middle Dutch bat (“bathwater”). Originally a hydronym.

See also Zealandic Bat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑt/

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• Hyphenation: Bath
• Rhymes: -ɑt
• Homophone: bad

Proper noun

Bath n

1. A village and former municipality of Reimerswaal, Zeeland, Netherlands.

Derived terms

• Fort Bath
• Rilland en Bath
• Rilland-Bath

References

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “bath”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎^[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN