batta

• bhatta

Hindi भत्ता (bhattā)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtə/

batta (countable and uncountable, plural battas)

1. (India, dated) An exchange rate.
2. (India, dated) The discount on uncurrent coins.
3. (India, dated) Extra pay; especially an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
   • (Can we date this quote?) The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China, and Australasia (volume 28)

     On the day previous to their entry into the place, the men had shown a spirit of insubordination, refusing to proceed until some promise was given that they should get their extra battas.

“batta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• at bat, at-bat

• Homophones: battas, battât

batta

1. third-person singular past historic of batter

• IPA^(key): /bát.tàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bát.tàː]

battā̀ f (plural battōcī, possessed form battàr̃)

1. leather pouch (e.g., for tobacco)
2. small metal container (e.g., of tiger balm)

batta

1. inflection of battere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

batta

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばった
2. Rōmaji transcription of バッタ

• IPA^(key): /ˈbat.ta/
• Homophones: bgħadtha, bgħattha (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -atta

From Arabic بَطَّأَ (baṭṭaʔa, “to make or become slow”).

batta (imperfect jbatti)

1. (intransitive) to abate, subside

Borrowed from Sicilian bàttiri and/or Italian battere, both from Latin battuere.

batta (imperfect jbatti)

1. (transitive) to knock, beat

   Synonym: ħabbat

2. (transitive) to knock over