batu

English

Noun

batu (uncountable)

1. (Hawaii, colloquial) The drug methamphetamine hydrochloride, crystal meth.

Anagrams

• Taub, Tuba, abut, buat, buta, tabu, tuba

Balinese

Romanization

batu

1. Romanization of ᬩᬢᬸ.

Banjarese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Noun

batu

1. stone

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *batu (compare Malay batu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /batu/
• Hyphenation: ba‧tu

Noun

batu

1. rock or stone of any size, including boulder and pebble

Central Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Noun

batu

1. stone

Cocos Islands Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Malay batu, from Proto-Malayic *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

batu

1. stone

Dibabawon Manobo

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Noun

batu

1. stone

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

batu

1. imperative of bati

Fula

Noun

batu o (plural batuuji ɗi)

1. (Maasina) meeting, assembly, council, court, entourage

   Synonyms: kawrital, jiidal, yewto

References

• D. Osborn, D. Dwyer, et J. Donohoe, Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français: Une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes, suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.
• Richard Smith, Urs Niggli, Dictionnaire fulfulde - anglais - français, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2016.

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Noun

batu

1. stone

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay batu, from Proto-Malayic *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

• For the sense of battery, compare to dialectal Chinese 電石／电石 (“battery”, literally “electric stone”) and Japanese 電石(エレクトレット) (erekutoretto, “electret”).
• For the sense of gemstone and agate, compare to Baba Malay batu (“gem”, literally “stone”) and Japanese 石(せき) (seki, “counter for gemstone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ba‧tu

Noun

batu (plural batu-batu, first-person possessive batuku, second-person possessive batumu, third-person possessive batunya)

1. stone
   1. a hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
   2. a small piece of stone, a pebble.
   3. a gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

      Synonym: intan

   4. (board games) a playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games.

      Synonym: buah

2. agate

   Synonym: akik

3. battery: a device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.

   Synonyms: aki, baterai

4. (rare) milestone

   Synonyms: mil, pal, tonggak

5. (figurative) anything hard.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “batu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Isubu

Noun

batu

1. plural of motu (men)

References

• Joseph Merrick, Alfred Saker, A Grammar of the Isubu Tongue (1852)

Javanese

Romanization

batu

1. Romanization of ꦧꦠꦸ

Kapampangan

Etymology

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

Noun

batu

1. stone (substance)
2. stone (small piece of stone)

Keley-I Kallahan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Noun

batu

1. stone; rock

Limos Kalinga

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Noun

batú

1. stone

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /batu/
• Rhymes: -atu, -tu, -u

• Audio (MY)

  (file)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu. Cognate with Hawaiian pōhaku and Tagalog bato.

Noun

batu (Jawi spelling باتو, plural batu-batu, informal 1st possessive batuku, 2nd possessive batumu, 3rd possessive batunya)

1. stone (substance)
2. stone (small piece of stone)
3. (figurative) anything hard.

   Keras macam batu.

   Hard as rock.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Indonesian: batu
• Cocos Islands Malay: batu
• → Hokkien: 礣砥 (bá-tû)

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from English milestone.

Noun

batu (Jawi spelling باتو, plural batu-batu, informal 1st possessive batuku, 2nd possessive batumu, 3rd possessive batunya)

1. mile (unit of measurement)

Synonyms

• mil (Indonesia)

References

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “باتو batoe”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 40
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “باتو batu”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 75
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “batu”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 91

Further reading

• “batu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː.tu/
• Homophone: bagħtu (except archaically)
• Rhymes: -aːtu

Verb

batu

1. plural imperative of bata

Matigsalug Manobo

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Noun

batu

1. stone; rock

Minangkabau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Noun

batu

1. stone

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /batu/
• Hyphenation: ba‧tu

Etymology 1

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

Noun

batu

1. golden grain

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦧꦠꦸ (batu)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

batu

1. certain part of the palace yard

Further reading

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

Polish

Alternative forms

• batowi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.tu/
• Rhymes: -atu
• Syllabification: ba‧tu

Noun

batu m

1. dative singular of bat

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

batu (Cyrillic spelling бату)

1. dative/locative singular of bat

Sundanese

Romanization

batu

1. Romanization of ᮘᮒᮥ

Tausug

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu.

Noun

batu

1. stone

Derived terms

• kabatuhan
• tubig batu (“ice”)