bata

• batá, bàtá

Bata drums (from left: Okónkolo, Iyá, Itótele)

bata (plural bata)

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

     Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine

• AABT, ABTA

bata

1. a baby
2. a young animal; a juvenile; a young
3. a young person; a girl or a boy
4. one's child; one's son or daughter
5. a sprout

bata

1. young

bata

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

• bataon
• batan-on
• kabatan-onan

• 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

batà

1. child; baby

báta

1. nightshirt, nightgown

bátà

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

batâ

1. uncle

bátà

1. to give birth

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): /ˈbˠat̪ˠə/

bata m (genitive singular bata, nominative plural bataí)

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

• bata cogaidh (“knapweed”)
• bata druma (“drumstick”)

• “bata” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• "bata" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “bata” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bata” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

bata

1. (Banawá) rotten

bata

1. (Banawá) to pick

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

From Portuguese bata.

bata

1. uniform
2. apron

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ta/

bata m

1. genitive singular of bat

bata

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of bater
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of bater
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of bater
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of bater

• IPA^(key): [pahtə]

bata m (plural bataichean)

1. a staff, a walking stick

From French ouate.

bata f (plural batas)

1. dressing gown
2. lab coat

• batín

bata

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of batir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of batir.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of batir.

From Arabic بَطّ‎ (baṭṭ).

bata (ma class, plural mabata)

1. duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)

• bata mzinga (“turkey”)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.taʔ/

bata

1. baby; child (prepubescent human)
2. youngster
3. protege
4. sweetheart

bata

1. young
2. junior
3. childish; childlike

• batang babae
• batang lalaki
• kabata
• kababata
• isip-bata
• bata-pa
• pambata

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ta/

bata

1. robe; dressing gown

• IPA^(key): /bɐˈta/

bata

1. to persevere; to endure, to bear
2. to grow young again; to be rejuvenated

• magbata
• mabata
• batahin / bathin
• ipabata
• bumata

English butter

bata

1. butter

Unclear; probably from English betel

bata

1. betel

• daka

• buai