Meaning

noun a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)

noun you soak and wash your body in a bathtub

noun a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- Proto-Germanic *baþą Proto-West Germanic *baþ Old English bæþ Middle English bath English bath From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe. Cognate with Danish, Dutch,…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0