بَلَّانٌ
Root: بل
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بَلَّانٌ
A hot bath: the ا and ن are augmentative: for the hot bath is thus called because he who enters it is moistened by its water or by his sweat: pl. بَلَّانَاتٌ, occurring in a trad., and said by IAth to be originally بَلَّالَاتٌ. (TA in art. بلن; in which, as well as in the present art., it is mentioned in the K.)
2 It is now applied to A man who serves [the bathers, by washing them &c.,] in the hot bath: [fem. with ة:] but this is a vulgar application of the word.
2 It is now applied to A man who serves [the bathers, by washing them &c.,] in the hot bath: [fem. with ة:] but this is a vulgar application of the word.
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