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a Finnish room where you pay good money to suffer beautifully, then feel reborn.
means a small heated room or building where steam or dry heat makes you sweat, used for relaxation and cleansing.
from Straight from Finnish — "sauna" is one of the very few Finnish words to travel the world intact. It traces back to older Finnic and possibly proto-Uralic roots, where it may originally have described a pit or earth-bath dug into the ground and heated with stones, long before the wooden cabins we picture now. The Finns kept the word; everyone else just borrowed both it and the sweat.
- finnish word
- only Finnish word in common global English use
- national count
- Finland has more saunas than cars
- birth rooms
- women once gave birth in saunas for sterility
- heat range
- often hits 80 to 100 Celsius inside
- diplomacy tool
- Finland built sauna diplomacy into its foreign policy
finland national sauna team — finns compete in sauna sitting championships, with contestants enduring extreme heat; finland has over 3 million saunas for 5.5 million people
rajaportin sauna — oldest continuously operating public sauna in helsinki since 1927, traditional finnish smoke sauna