Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See hammam.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A sweating bath or place for sweating.

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  • noun A Turkish bath.

Etymologies

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Arabic or Persian.

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  • "...he spent the afternoon in the Covent Garden hummums, his sparse frame sweating in the hottest room until it could sweat no more."

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Reverse of the Medal, 283

    February 29, 2008