بَلَّانٌ

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:) plural بَلَّانَاتٌ, (K,) occurring in a tradition, and said by IAth to be originally بَلَّالَاتٌ. (TA in article بلن; in which, as well as in the present article, it is mentioned in the K.)

It is now applied to A man who serves [the bathers, by washing them &c.,] in the hot bath: [feminine with ة:] but this is a vulgar application of the word. (TA.)