Turkish bath Turc" ("The Turkish Bath"), depicts these spaces as magical and sexual. There are several women touching themselves or one another sensually while some dance to music played by the woman in the centre of the painting. Western male artists allowed their imaginations to run free. The hammam combines the functionality and the structural elements of its predecessors in Anatolia, the Roman thermae and baths, with the Central Asian Turkic tradition of steam bathing, ritual cleansing and respect of water From the 10th century, Turkish kingdoms began to proliferate in Anatolia in lands conquered from the Byzantine Greeks, leading eventually to
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