bata

• batá, bàtá

From Yoruba bàtá.

bata (plural bata)

1. A ceremonial double-headed drum played in triplet in the religion of santería, especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico, originally from the Yoruba of Nigeria.
   • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “The Rhythm of the Saints”, in The Coast, Warner Bros.:

     Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine.

   • 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 283:

     Five drummers in front setting the dance—three beating barrel drums, a fourth beating a double-skin bata, and the fifth beating four small bata tied together.

• AABT, ABTA

• IPA^(key): /baˈta/ [bʌˈtʌ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

batá f 

1. doum fruit

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• IPA^(key): /ba.tə/
• Rhymes: -atə
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

Borrowed from Old Javanese bata (“brick; wall”).

bata (Balinese script ᬩᬢ)

1. brick

Borrowed from Old Javanese bhaṭa (“soldier; warrior”), from Sanskrit भट (bhaṭa, “a mercenary, hired soldier, warrior, combatant; a servant, slave”).

bata (Balinese script ᬪᬝ)

1. servant
2. soldier

• “bata” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

• IPA^(key): /bata/ [ba.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata, -a
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

From bat (“one, some”) +‎ -a (definite article).

bata

1. absolutive singular of bat (“one”)

bata (indefinite)

1. one, someone

• Southern dialects tend to use this form in all cases rather than bat.
• When used in coordination with bestea (“other, another”), the indefinite form isn't used.

From Spanish bata (“dressing gown”).

bata inan

1. dressing gown, robe

• “bata”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /baˈtaʔ/ [baˈtaʔ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

batâ (Basahan spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. stink; stench; reek

   Synonym: bangog

   Antonym: hamot

• IPA^(key): /ˈbataʔ/ [ˈba.taʔ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

batà (Basahan spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. (Naga, informal) lover; partner

   Synonyms: ilusyon, piday, katrato

Borrowed from Spanish bata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbata/ [ˈba.ta]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

báta (Basahan spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. robe

• IPA^(key): /ˈbataʔ/ [ˈba.taʔ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

batà (Basahan spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. alternative form of atà (“I told you”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq.

bata

1. child

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq, from Proto-Austronesian *bataq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbataʔ/ [ˈba.t̪ɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

batà (Badlit spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. child
2. juvenile; young
3. sprout
4. protégé of someone of higher rank

   Synonym: bata-bata

5. (colloquial) mistress

   Synonyms: kabit, kerida

batà (Badlit spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. young

   Antonym: tigulang

batà

1. to spend someone's early years in; to spend childhood years in
2. to grow up by or in an area or town

Borrowed from Spanish bata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbata/ [ˈba.t̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

bata

1. woman's nightgown

• IPA^(key): /ˈbata/ [ˈba.t̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

báta (Badlit spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. to divide into equal parts or bundles to be sold

• Fr. Juan Felis de la Encarnación (1851) Diccionario bisaya-español‎^[2] (overall work in Cebuano and Spanish), Amigos del País
• “bata” in Pinoy Dictionary, Cyberspace.ph, 2010-2022.

• abat, abta, atab, baat

Inherited from Spanish bata (“robe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbata/, [ˈba.t̪a]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

báta

1. house gown; dressing gown

Borrowed from Cebuano bata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq, from Proto-Austronesian *bataq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbataʔ/, [ˈba.t̪aʔ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

batà

1. (Zamboangueño) child

   Synonyms: anak, (Zamboangueño) chiquillo, (Ternateño, Caviteño) criatura, (Zamboangueño) niño

• IPA^(key): /ˈɓá.ta/

báta class 5

1. quietness

bata (Northern dialect)

1. little brother

• Corresponding words in standard Crimean Tatar: kadâ, qardaş.

• mata, qardaş

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq, from Proto-Austronesian *bataq.

batà

1. child; baby

Cognates include Edo ibata and Yoruba bàtà

• IPA^(key): /bà.tà/

bàtà

1. shoe

• Baloubi, Désiré (2005) The Morphophonemics of the Idaacha dialect of Yoruba‎^[3], Charlotte, North Carolina: Conquering Books, →DOI, →ISBN, page 41

bata

1. inflection of bater:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

bata

1. to cross, to pass

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq, from Proto-Austronesian *bataq.

bata

1. child
2. offspring

Borrowed from Spanish bata.

báta

1. nightshirt, nightgown

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq, from Proto-Austronesian *bataq.

batà

1. child, baby, boy, girl
2. son, daughter
3. servant

batà

1. to give birth

batâ

1. uncle

• IPA^(key): [bata]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

bata

1. brick:
   1. a hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.

From ba (“enter”) +‎ -tá (“towards”).

batá

1. to enter, to come in.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbata/ [ˈba.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ba‧ta

Inherited from Malay bata (“brick”). Cognate of Balinese bata (“brick”), Javanese ꦧꦠ (bata, “brick, brick wall; cube”), Old Javanese bata (“brick; wall”).

bata

1. brick

   Synonym: batu bata

2. brick, something shapes like a brick

Probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq, from Proto-Austronesian *bataq. Compare to Tagalog bata (“child”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bata

1. marriage between siblings and siblings at the same time (clarification of this definition is needed)

• “bata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Middle English batte (“bat”), from Old French batte (“pestle”), from the verb batre (“to beat”), from Latin battuō, perhaps of Celtic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɑt̪ˠə/^[1], /ˈbˠat̪ˠə/^[2][3]

bata m (genitive singular bata, nominative plural bataí)

1. stick
2. baton
3. gust (of wind)
4. measure (of drink)

• bata túise (“joss-stick”)
• bata cogaidh (“knapweed”)
• bata druma (“drumstick”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bata”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “bata”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 84; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bata”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bata”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bata”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

bata

1. (Banawá) rotten

bata

1. (Banawá) to pick

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

bata

1. romanization of ꦧꦠ

From Portuguese bata.

bata

1. uniform
2. apron

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

bata

1. stalk

Borrowed from Sicilian patiri, from Vulgar Latin *patīre, from Latin patī. An early borrowing, as attested by the initial b-; compare biċċa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː.ta/
• Homophones: bagħta, bagħatha (except archaically)
• Rhymes: -aːta

bata (imperfect jbati, verbal noun tbatija)

1. to suffer
   • 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “It-Tallab”, in Fl-Arena:

     Wara l-bibien,
     fit-tul tat-toroq twal,
     batejt
     il-għeja
     il-qtigħ ta’ qalb,
     batejt fuq kollox il-mistħija;
     iżda ġarrabt ukoll
     il-ferħ u l-għaxqa
     li kull tallab iħoss
     x’ħin jasal wisq għajjien bil-ħorġa f’idu
     bil-ħobż għand ommu mġewħa.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

bata

1. concrete, cement

Borrowed from English father, from Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠɑːdˠɑ], (enunciated) [pˠɑ tˠɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠæɰtˠæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {bahtah}

bata

1. a priest

bata

1. to be a priest

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.tɑ/

bāta

1. genitive/nominative/accusative plural of bāt

Unknown, probably inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buRtaq (“earth, soil, mud”).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ta/
• Rhymes: -ta
• Homophones: bata, bhaṭa
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

bata

1. brick

   Synonyms: aśmawiṣṭaka, bata, rimbag, iṣṭakā, wiṣṭaka

2. wall

   Synonyms: āwaraṇa, bata, kaṇṭa, kuṭa, lalayan, laleyan, leleyan, pacira, parigi, sarisig, tambak, tambĕṅ, taraṅ, tarib, tawiṅ, tawuṅ, tĕruṅ

• > Javanese: ꦧꦠ (bata) (inherited)
• >? Balinese: ᬩᬢ (bata)
• >? Malay: bata
  • > Indonesian: bata (inherited)
  • → Iban: bata
  • → Maranao: bata

• "bata" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

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

bata m

1. genitive singular of bat

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta

bata f (plural batas)

1. white coat

   Synonym: jaleco

   • 1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho, page 26:

     […] depois levantou-se, despiu a bata em movimentos cansados, lentos.

     […] next he got up and took off his white coat with tired, slow movements.

2. alternative form of boitatá

bata

1. inflection of bater:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Middle English batte, from Old French batte. Akin to Irish bata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaʰtə/

bata m (plural bataichean)

1. a staff, a walking stick

bata (Cyrillic spelling бата)

1. genitive singular of bat

From Proto-Bantu *-jípata.

-bátá (infinitive kubátá)

1. hold, grasp
2. touch

bata

1. to be cold

• IPA^(key): /ˈbata/ [ˈba.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ba‧ta

Borrowed from French ouate.

bata f (plural batas)

1. dressing gown, robe
2. lab coat
3. smock

Borrowed from Tagalog bata (or from the same word in other Philippine languages, such as Cebuano bata, Hiligaynon bata, etc).

bata m (plural batas)

1. (Philippines) child

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bata

1. inflection of batir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “bata”, 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

• IPA^(key): /baˈta/

bata (Sundanese script ᮘᮒ)

1. brick (a hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building, paving, or masonry.)
2. A unit of area equivalent to a square tumbak or five-hundredth of a bahu, roughly 14 square meters

• 'BATA', in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij
• Volksalmanak Soenda XII (in Sundanese), Bale Poestaka (Balai Pustaka), 1930, II. Oekoeran Djeung Timbangan

From Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ), بَطَّة (baṭṭa).

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bata class V (plural mabata class VI)

1. duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)

• bata bukini (“goose”)
• bata mzinga (“turkey”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq, from Proto-Austronesian *bataq. Also possibly from Sanskrit वत्स (vatsa, “child, offspring”) or Sanskrit बटु (baṭu, “boy, lad, youth”). Compare Tausug bata'.

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

batà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. child; kid

   Synonyms: paslit, bulilit

   • 2020, Ervin Santiago, “Frankie tinawag na ‘KSP at miserableng bata’ ng basher: Be like your Ate KC!”, in Bandera‎^[4]:

     WALANG patumanggang tinawag ng basher si Frankie Pangilinan na miserableng bata na uhaw sa atensyon.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. follower; supporter
3. protégé
4. (colloquial) sweetheart; boyfriend or girlfriend

   Synonyms: kasintahan, katipan, kasuyo, (male) nobyo, (female) nobya, (slang) siyota, (slang) jowa

5. (colloquial) mistress; paramour

   Synonyms: kaapid, kabit, kalaguyo

batà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. young
2. junior; younger
3. childish; childlike

Borrowed from Spanish bata, from French ouate.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbata/ [ˈbaː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ba‧ta

bata (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. house gown; dressing gown
2. robe (loose, outer garment)
3. (strictly) bathrobe

   Synonym: bata de-banyo

Possibly from Sanskrit वठ् (vaṭh, “to be able”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈta/ [bɐˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ba‧ta

batá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆ)

1. ability to endure pain, hardship, etc.

   Synonyms: tiis, tiyaga, agwanta, kawasa, pasensiya

• “bata”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “bata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 16

• taba, abat, baat

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.ta]

bata

1. (stative) to be spotted

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From English butter.

bata

1. butter

Unclear; probably from English betel

bata

1. betel

   Synonym: daka

batá

1. wet

• ibàtà (Ọwọ)

Cognates include Edo ibata. Possibly related to or from Baatonum bataku or Baatonum bara

• IPA^(key): /bà.tà/

bàtà

1. shoe

• sálúbàtà (“sandals”)

• IPA^(key): /bà.tá/

bàtá

1. batá drum, a kind of drum sacred to the orisha Ṣàngó, it is one of the 4 families of drums (ìlù) among the Yoruba.

• alubàtá (“bàtá drummer”)

• → English: bata
• → Portuguese: batá
• → Spanish: batá
• → Nupe: bàǹtá