bat

bat

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Baltic languages.

• enPR: băt, IPA^(key): /bæt/

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• Rhymes: -æt

Dialectal variant (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse (leðr)blaka (literally “(leather) flapper”), from leðr + blaka (“to flap”).

Compare Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ (literally “night-flapper”).

bat (plural bats)

1. Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

   • 2012, Suemedha Sood, (bbc.co.uk) Travelwise: Texas love bats [sic]

     As well as being worth millions of dollars to the Texan agriculture industry, these mammals are worth millions of dollars to the state’s tourism industry. Texas is home to the world’s largest known bat colony (in Comal County), and the world’s largest urban bat colony (in Austin). Bat watching is a common activity, with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department offering more bat-viewing sites than anywhere else in the US.

2. (derogatory) An old woman.
   • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 196:

     "Isn't it lovely?" I smiled and thought: "Yes it is. It's also a Blackbird, you silly old bat!

• (flying mammal): chiropter, chiropteran, flindermouse, flitterbat, flittermouse, fluttermouse, flying mouse, rearmouse/reremouse

• Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

A baseball player swinging a baseball bat to hit a baseball

From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin, compare Old Breton bath (“club, cudgel”) and modern Breton bazh (“swagger stick”), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- (“to strike, beat, pierce”), similar to the Gaulish source of Latin battuo (“I beat, pound”).[1]

bat (plural bats)

1. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
2. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.

   You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?

3. (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.[2]
4. (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
   • 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays

     bituminous shale ; which miners , if I mistake not , call bat

5. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
6. A part of a brick with one whole end.
7. A stroke; a sharp blow.
8. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
9. (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
   • 1842, Sporting Magazine (page 251)

     On starting, The Nun led at a very slow pace for a quarter of a mile, when the Shrigley colt made running at a good bat.

   • 1898, unknown author, Pall Mall Magazine

     a vast host of fowl […] making at full bat for the North Sea.

10. (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
11. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
12. (Kent, Sussex) A rough walking stick.[3][4]

• (two-up): kip, stick, kylie, lannet

From Middle English baten (“to beat”), from Old French batre (“to beat”), from Late Latin battere, from Latin battuere; in modern English reinterpreted as a verbal derivative of Etymology 2. Compare batter, battery.

bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)

1. (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.

   He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack.

   We batted a few ideas around.

2. (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
3. (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.

   The cat batted at the toy.

4. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.

Possibly a variant of bate.

bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)

1. (transitive) To flutter

   bat one's eyelashes

2. (US, UK, dialect) To wink.
3. (intransitive, usually with 'around' or 'about') To flit quickly from place to place.

   I've spent all week batting around the country.

Most commonly used in the phrase bat an eye, and variants thereof.

Borrowed from French bât, from Old French bast, from Vulgar Latin *bastum, form of *bastāre (“to carry”), from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to lift, carry”). Doublet of baton and baston.

bat (plural bats)

1. (obsolete) A packsaddle.

• batman

bat

1. Dated form of baht (“Thai currency”).

bat (plural bats)

1. (Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“buttocks or anus”).

bat (plural bats)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A child's shoe without a welt.
   • 1909, Boot and Shoe Recorder (volume 55, page 25)

     The retailer who sells a little girl a pretty pair of shoes today instead of a pair of bats, is bound to sell that girl, when she grows up, a pair of stylish $3 or $4 shoes instead of her buying a pair of $1.98 bargain bats elsewhere.

2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A boot that is badly made or in poor condition.

• (child's shoe; boot): J. Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary
• (boot): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

• bat mitzvah
• bits and bats

• ABT, ATB, B.T.A., BTA, TBA, Tab, abt, abt., tab

• batu

From Late Latin battō, from Latin battuō. Compare Daco-Romanian bate, bat.

bat (third-person singular present indicative bati/bate, past participle bãtutã)

1. I beat, hit, strike.
2. I defeat.

• (beat): agudescu
• (defeat): azvingu

• batiri/batire
• bãteri
• bãtut
• bãtutã
• strãbat

From a reduced form of Proto-Basque *bade (“one, some”), present also in bederatzi (“nine”) and bedera (“same; everyone”).[1][2][3] Compared by Eduardo Orduña and Joan Ferrer to Iberian ban (“one”).[4][5]

• IPA^(key): /bat/, [bat̪]

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bat

1. a, an, some

   musu bat

   a kiss

2. (after a numeral) some, about, around

   Bidaiak hamar bat ordu iraungo du.

   The trip will take around ten hours.

• The determiner doesn't take the definite singular form.

bat

1. one

   Sagar bat eta lau laranja.

   One apple and four oranges.

• The declension table shown in this section only applies when bat is used as a noun (usually when referring to the number itself). For other uses see the other declension tables.

bat

1. (indefinite) some, something, someone

• When used as a pronoun, the definite form bata is more common in Southern dialects.

• “bat zenbatzailea” in Euskara Batuaren Eskuliburua [Handbook of Standard Basque], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “bat zenbatzailea / -a artikulua (batzuk/-ak)” in Euskara Batuaren Eskuliburua [Handbook of Standard Basque], euskaltzaindia.eus
• "bat" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbat/
• Rhymes: -at

From batre.

bat m (plural bats)

1. A place exposed to the elements.

   Synonyms: batent, baterell

bat

1. third-person singular present indicative form of batre
2. second-person singular imperative form of batre

From English bat.

bat m (plural bats)

1. (baseball) bat

• batedor

“bat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbat/, [ˈbat̪]

bat

1. Alternative form of balat.

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ad̥]

From English bat.

bat n (singular definite battet, plural indefinite bat or bats)

1. bat (a club for striking a ball)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bat

1. imperative of batte

• IPA^(key): /ba/

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• Homophones: bats (general), bât, bâts, bas (some speakers)

bat

1. third-person singular present indicative of battre

• bat les couilles (“not give a fuck”)

• t.a.b.

• IPA^(key): /baːt/

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• Rhymes: -aːt
• Homophones: Bad (standard, but not universal), Bart (some speakers)

bat

1. first/third-person singular preterite of bitten

From French battre (“beat”).

bat

1. to spank, to beat

• IPA^(key): /ˈbat/
• Hyphenation: bat

bat

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

bat (plural: bat dem or bats dem, quantified: bat)

1. moth (nocturnal insect)
   • 2003, Amber Wilson, Jamaica: The Land (in English), page 30:

     “Hundreds of species of butterflies and moths live in Jamaica. Jamaicans call large moths "bats." The black witch moth is known as "the duppy bat." A duppy is a spirit in Jamaican culture that sometimes causes mischief. Duppy bats have brown [...]”

   Duppy bat still a fly like hawk.

   Black witch moths are still flying around like hawks.

• dunce bat
• duppy bat

bat

From English bat.

bat (plural: bat dem or bats dem, quantified: bat)

1. bat (instrument for hitting or striking)

   When yu get one lick from me wid di bat... yu wi know.

   If I hit you once with this bat, you'll understand.

1. old bat

• Richard Allsopp, editor, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1996 (2003 printing), →ISBN, page 83
• bat – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

Borrowed from Burmese ပတ် (pat).

bat

1. week

• Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

bat (plural bede)

1. arm

• IPA^(key): /bat/

From Old Dutch *bath, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.

bat n

1. bath

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: bad
• Limburgish: baad

From Old Dutch *bat, *bet, from Proto-Germanic *batiz.

bat

1. better; comparative degree of wel

   Synonym: beter

• bet

• Dutch: bet- only in betovergroot- (“great grand-”) and betweter (“know-it-all”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bat

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of bidden

• “bat (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “bat (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bat (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bet (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page bet

From Old English batt, from Celtic; influenced by Old French batte.

• batt, batte, bot

• IPA^(key): /bat/, /bɔt/

bat (plural battes or botten)

1. A mace, bat, or morningstar (blunt weapon)
2. (rare) A pole or stick used for other
3. (rare, Late Middle English) A strike or hit from a weapon.
4. (rare, Late Middle English) A clump of soft material.

• English: bat, batt
• Scots: bat
• Yola: bath
• → Irish: bata
• → Scottish Gaelic: bata

• “bat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.

bat

1. (Northern) Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

From Proto-West Germanic *bait.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːt/

bāt m

1. boat

Occasionally appears as feminine:

• bot, bote

Borrowed from Old English bāt and Middle English bot.

bat m (oblique plural batz, nominative singular batz, nominative plural bat)

1. boat

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bat)

• IPA^(key): /bad/

bat

1. inflection of is:
   1. third-person plural imperative
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

• IPA^(key): /bat/

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• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: bat
• Homophone: bad

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *batъ.

bat m inan (diminutive bacik)

1. whip (rod for beating)

   Synonym: bicz

2. (slang) joint (marijuana cigarette)

Either borrowed from Swedish bat[1] or Italian batto.[2]

bat m inan

1. bateau (type of boat)

Borrowed from Thai บาท (bàat), from Sanskrit पाद (pāda).

bat m anim

1. baht (currency of Thailand)

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

bat

1. inflection of bate:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

From Proto-Slavic *batъ.

• IPA^(key): /bât/

bȁt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̏т)

1. mallet
2. helve hammer

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باصدی‎ (bastı), from باصمق‎ (basmak).

• IPA^(key): /bâːt/

bȃt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑т)

1. The tramp of heavy footsteps, as in a military march
   • 1939, Čedomir Minderović, Crven je istok i zapad:

     Napred, sve bliže i bliže, / Čuje se koraka bat. / Glas milijona se diže: / Dole fašizam i rat!

     Forward, ever closer and closer, / the tramp of footsteps is heard. / The voice of millions is raised: / Down with fascism and war!

2. (rare) The tramp of horses’ hooves

• IPA^(key): /bâːt/

bȃt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑т)

1. Alternative form of bȁht