Turkish bath with relaxation in a room heated by a continuous flow of hot, dry air, allowing the bather to perspire freely. Bathers may then move to an even hotter room before they wash in cold water. After performing a full body wash and receiving a massage, bathers finally retire to the cooling-room for a period of relaxation. The difference between the Islamic hammam and the Victorian Turkish bath is the air. The hot air in the Victorian Turkish bath is dry; in the Islamic hammam the air is often steamy. The bather in a Victorian Turkish bath will often take a
Turkish vocabulary possessional suffix; they can be understood as forming nominal compounds, "always indefinite", with the preceding words (see also Turkish grammar#Nouns): Some samples include: Some Turkish conjunctions are borrowed from Persian and Arabic. The "cumulative" sense of the English "A and B" can be expressed several ways: For the "adversative" sense of "but" or "only", there are "ama" and "fakat" (both Arabic), also "yalnız" (which is also an adjective corresponding to "alone"). For emphasis: "hem A hem B" "both A and B". For the sense of English "(either)…or": The pattern of the last two can be extended: "NE ABD NE AB