Čifte Hammam Čifte Hammam Cifte hammam () is a hammam in the Old Bazaar of Skopje, Macedonia. It was built in the mid-15th century by Bosnian general Isa-Beg Ishaković in order to provide a regular source of income for his endowment. Name of the hammam is derived from the Turkish word "çift" meaning "two" or "couple" as the building consists of two main parts. Since 2001 the object is used for exhibitions as a part of the National institution “National gallery of Macedonia”. Male and female dressing rooms are apart with a joint bath area. There were three separate rooms with high
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