batil

• bateel, battil

Borrowed from Arabic بَتِيل (batīl).

batil (plural batils)

1. A type of traditional sailing vessel used in the Arabian Sea.
   • 1877, Charles Rathbone Low, The History of the Indian Navy‎^[1]:

     The Batil, a vessel with a long fiddle-headed bow and two masts, which may be distinguished from other craft by the inner part of the stern-post being ornamented with devices cut in the wood.

   • 2020 August 20, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire‎^[2], HarperCollins UK, →ISBN, page 157:

     While baghlas and their smaller equivalents, battils, were used for Arab trade between the west coast of India and the Gulf, European-style ships were also increasingly prevalent in this trade.

• -bital, Talib, bilat, balti, Bălți, Balti

Borrowed from Spanish batir. Compare Bikol Central bati and Tagalog bati.

• Hyphenation: ba‧til
• IPA^(key): /baˈtil/ [bɐˈt̪il̪]

batíl

1. to beat; to whip; to whisk
2. (euphemistic) to masturbate

   Synonyms: jakol, lulo, ul-ol

batil

1. (slang) masturbation

For quotations using this term, see Citations:batil.

• binatilay

• batirol

• bilat, labit, latbi, libat, tabil

From Spanish batir.

• Hyphenation: ba‧tíl
• IPA^(key): /baˈtil/, [bɐˈtil]

batíl

1. beat; whisk

• batilen

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbatil/ [ˈba.t̪ɪl]
• Rhymes: -atil
• Syllabification: ba‧til

Inherited from Malay batil, from Classical Malay batil, from Tamil வட்டில் (vaṭṭil, “cup”).

batil (plural batil-batil)

1. (obsolete) container, vessel

   Synonym: wadah

Inherited from Malay batil, from Classical Malay batil, from Arabic بَاطِل (bāṭil).

batil (comparative lebih batil, superlative paling batil)

1. (archaic) null, invalid

   Synonyms: batal, sia-sia

2. (archaic) false: not true, not right

   Antonym: hak

batil (plural batil-batil)

1. (Islam) falsehood, wrong, injustice

   Synonyms: kesalahan, kejahatan, kemungkaran

• “batil” 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.