بل

بَلَّانٌ بلان A hot bath: (K:) 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: (TA:) pl. بَلَّانَاتٌ, (K,) 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.) ― -b2- 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. (TA.)