balata

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/, [ˈbɑlɑt̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑtɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ba‧la‧ta

balata

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

balata m (plural balatas)

1. balata

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 Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• balata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unknown, maybe from Arabic or French

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalat̪a/
• Hyphenation: ba‧la‧ta

balata f (plural balati)

1. marble slab

balata f (plural balatas)

1. brake lining

   Synonym: ferodo

• zapata

• “balata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From English balata, from Spanish.

balata

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

balata

1. to bullwhip