batu

batu (uncountable)

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

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

batu

1. Romanization of ᬩᬢᬸ.

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

batu

1. stone

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

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

batu

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

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

batu

1. stone

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.t̪u]

batu

1. stone

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

batu

1. stone

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batu

1. imperative of bati

batu o (plural batuuji ɗi)

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

   Synonyms: kawrital, jiidal, yewto

• 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.

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

batu

1. stone

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”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbatu]

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• Hyphenation: ba‧tu

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. (colloquial, electrical engineering) 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, akumulator, baterai, batu

   Synonyms: akumulator, penumpuk (Standard Malay)

4. (rare) milestone

   Synonyms: mil, pal, tonggak

5. (figurative) anything hard.

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

batu

1. plural of motu (men)

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

batu

1. Romanization of ꦧꦠꦸ

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

batu

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

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

batu

1. stone; rock

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

batú

1. stone

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

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

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.

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

Semantic loan from English milestone.

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

1. mile (unit of measurement)

• mil (Indonesia)

• 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

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

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

batu

1. plural imperative of bata

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

batu

1. stone; rock

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

batu

1. stone

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

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

batu

1. golden grain

• Javanese: ꦧꦠꦸ (batu)

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batu

1. certain part of the palace yard

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

• batowi

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

batu m

1. dative singular of bat

batu (Cyrillic spelling бату)

1. dative/locative singular of bat

batu

1. Romanization of ᮘᮒᮥ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu.

batu

1. stone

• kabatuhan
• tubig batu (“ice”)