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/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑtɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ba‧la‧ta

balata

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

balata m (plural balatas)

1. balata

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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

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], 2024 December 10
• “balata” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010
• balata | Diccionario del español de México

From English balata, from Spanish.

• IPA^(key): /baˈlata/, ,

balata

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

balata

1. to bullwhip