batar

• báter

From Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

batar

1. (Vegliot) to beat, strike, hit

Borrowed from Esperanto bati.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ˈtar/

batar (present tense batas, past tense batis, future tense batos, imperative batez, conditional batus)

1. (transitive) to beat, strike repeatedly, hit

• frapar

• bategar (“to trounce, wallop, beat, pummel”)

• batirear

batar (Latin spelling)

1. (transitive) to sink (of a boat)

• batarse

From Arabic بَتَرَ (batara).

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.tar/

batar (imperfect jobtor, past participle mibtur, verbal noun btur or btir or tibtir)

1. to dock (to cut off a section of an animal's tail)
2. to counterbalance (to apply weight in order to balance)

• (nonrelative only): batir

batar

1. third-person plural preterite/imperfect indicative of is
2. third-person plural preterite/imperfect indicative relative of is

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈtaɾ/ [bɐˈtaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ba‧tar

batár (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜇ᜔)

1. Alternative form of batad (“sorghum”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batad (“millet, sorghum”), compare Coastal Konjo batara (“maize”), Mansaka batad (“maize”), Cebuano batad (“sorghum”).

batar

1. maize

batar

1. third-person singular indicative aorist of batmak