balata

From Spanish balatá.

balata (countable and uncountable, plural balatas)

1. Manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.
   • 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 215:

     ‘She tall like a balata tree, her skin black like midnight.’

2. The latex obtained from this tree.

• albata, atabal

From Spanish balata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlɑtɑ/, [ˈbɑ̝lɑ̝t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑtɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ba‧la‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): ba‧la‧ta

balata

1. balata (tree Manilkara bidentata)
2. bulletwood (timber from this tree)

balata m (plural balatas)

1. balata

Borrowed from Spanish balatá.

• IPA^(key): /baˈla.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ba‧la‧ta

balata f

1. (countable) balata (Manilkara bidentata)
2. (uncountable) balata (latex acquired from the tree)

• balata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unknown, maybe from Arabic بَلَاط (balāṭ) or French

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalat̪a/
• Hyphenation: ba‧la‧ta

balata f (plural balati)

1. marble slab
2. by extension, headstone

• IPA^(key): /baˈlata/ [baˈla.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ba‧la‧ta

balata f (plural balatas)

1. brake lining

   Synonym: ferodo

• zapata

• “balata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “balata”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• balata | Diccionario del español de México

From Kari'na parata^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /balata/, [ba̠la̠ta̠], [bɑ̟lɑ̟tɑ̟]

balata

1. balata (Manilkara bidentata)

   Synonym: boletri

2. latex, rubber (material)
3. waistbelt
4. bullwhip, rubber baton

balata

1. to bullwhip

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈlataʔ/ [bɐˈlaː.t̪ɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -ataʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧la‧ta

balatà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜆ) (obsolete)

1. leather collar put on hunting dogs

Ultimately from Sanskrit व्रत (vrata, “obedience; any vow or firm purpose”).

balatà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜆ) (obsolete)

1. promise

   Synonyms: pangako, panata

2. abstinence from something in memory of someone

• “balata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018