batil

• bateel, battil

Borrowed from Arabic بَتِيل‎ (batīl).

batil (plural batils)

1. A type of traditional sailing vessel used in the Arabian Sea.
   • 1877, Charles Rathbone Low, The History of the Indian Navy‎:

     The Batil, a vessel with a long fiddle-headed bow and two masts, which may be distinguished from other craft by the inner part of the stern-post being ornamented with devices cut in the wood.

   • 2020 August 20, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire‎, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN, page 157:

     While baghlas and their smaller equivalents, battils, were used for Arab trade between the west coast of India and the Gulf, European-style ships were also increasingly prevalent in this trade.

Borrowed from Spanish batir, from Late Latin battere, variant of Latin battuere (“to beat, hit”), present active infinitive of battuō. Compare Bikol Central bati and Tagalog bati.

• Hyphenation: ba‧til
• IPA^(key): /baˈtil/, [bʌˈt̪il̪]

batíl

1. eggbeater; egg whisk; whisk

batíl

1. to beat; to whip; to whisk
2. (euphemistic) to masturbate

   Synonyms: jakol, lulo, ul-ol

For quotations using this term, see Citations:batil.

• binatilay

• batirol

• bilat, labit, latbi, libat, tabil

From Spanish batir.

• Hyphenation: ba‧tíl
• IPA^(key): /baˈtil/, [bɐˈtil]

batíl

1. beat; whisk

• batilen

From Malay batil, from Classical Malay batil, from Tamil வட்டில் (vaṭṭil, “cup”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbat̪ɪl]
• Hyphenation: ba‧til

batil (plural batil-batil, first-person possessive batilku, second-person possessive batilmu, third-person possessive batilnya)

1. (obsolete) container, vessel

   Synonym: wadah

From Malay batil, from Classical Malay batil, from Arabic بَاطِل‎ (bāṭil).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbat̪ɪl]
• Hyphenation: ba‧til

batil

1. (archaic) null, invalid.

   Synonyms: batal, sia-sia

2. (archaic) false: not true, not right.

   Antonym: hak

batil (plural batil-batil, first-person possessive batilku, second-person possessive batilmu, third-person possessive batilnya)

1. (Islam) falsehood, wrong, injustice.

   Synonyms: kesalahan, kejahatan, kemungkaran

• “batil” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.