batak

• IPA^(key): /batak/ [ba.t̪ak]
• Rhymes: -atak, -ak
• Hyphenation: ba‧tak

batak

1. ergative singular of bat (“one”)

batak

1. ergative of bata (“one”)

batak

1. absolutive plural of bat (“one”)

batak

1. absolutive plural of bat (“dressing gown”)

batak

1. ergative indefinite of bat (“dressing gown”)
2. ergative singular of bat (“dressing gown”)

• Hyphenation: ba‧tak
• IPA^(key): /ˈbatak/ [ˈba.t̪ɐk]

batak

1. cracked; broken

batak

1. to cleave; to split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument
2. to pay one's debts by splitting coconuts and bamboo

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish *باتاق (bataq) (first attested in the compound [script needed] (bataqlu) before 1451), from Proto-Turkic *batgak (“swamp, marsh”);^[1][2] cognate with Azerbaijani bataq and Turkish batak.

• IPA^(key): /bɑˈtɑk/
• Hyphenation: ba‧tak

batak (definite accusative bataa, plural bataklar)

1. swamp, marsh, bog, mire
2. dirt
3. (figurative) dirt, slander
   • 2024 November 2, “Gagauzların üstünä batak atan națizma kertiinä gelän ksenofoblara polițiyadan protokollar”, in Ana Sözü‎^[1]:

     Gagauzların üstünä batak atan națizma kertiinä gelän ksenofoblara polițiyadan protokollar

     Policy protocols to the xenophobes who slander (litterally, to throw dirt) at the Gagauz and come from the notch of Nazism

• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “batak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 28
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “батак”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 74

batak

1. to practice, to train

• batabatak

batak

1. to hammer (to form, as malleable metal), to temper, to refine (by pounding)

• bataka'
• batakan

From Ottoman Turkish باجاق (bacak) (Turkish bacak). Akin to bàdžak.

• IPA^(key): /bâtaːk/
• Hyphenation: ba‧tak

bȁtāk m inan (Cyrillic spelling ба̏та̄к)

1. leg (of a bird, frog etc.)

• “batak”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Compare Cebuano batak, Hiligaynon batak, and Kapampangan batak.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈbatak/ [ˈbaː.t̪ɐk̚] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -atak
  • IPA^(key): /baˈtak/ [bɐˈt̪ak̚] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: ba‧tak

batak (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜃ᜔)

1. pull towards oneself; drag towards oneself; haul towards oneself

   Synonyms: hatak, hila, paghila, higit, kaladkad

2. object which one pulls or drags towards oneself
3. (slang) act of administering an illegal drug (such as methamphetamine, cannabis, etc.)

baták (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜃ᜔)

1. pulled; stretched; taut; tight

   Synonyms: hapit, banat, unat, mabagting

2. (colloquial, figurative) well-exercised; muscular; well-trained (of one's body)

• tabak, bakat, takba

batak

1. dam; dyke

From Ottoman Turkish باتاق (batak), from Proto-Turkic *batgak (“swamp, marsh”). Related to batmak.

• IPA^(key): /bɑ.tɑk/

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batak

1. swampy, soft underfoot
2. (business) unsound

batak (definite accusative batağı, plural bataklar)

1. (geology) swamp, marsh, bog
2. (card games) A card game.

• batakçı (“swindler”)
• batakhane (“gambling house; den of thieves”)
• bataklık (“swamp”)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “batak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• “batak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu