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Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حمام (hamam), from Arabic حَمَّام (ḥammām).
Noun
חאמאם m (Hebrew spelling, Latin spelling hamam)
- 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.
- 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