battery

English [edit]

Wikipedia has an article on:

Battery

From Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“battre”), from Latin battuō (“beat”).

Electrical batteries

A cannon battery

battery (plural batteries)

A device that produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances (Wikipedia).
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, Internal Combustion^[1]:
  
  But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
(law) The crime or tort of intentionally striking another person.
A coordinated group of artillery.
An array of similar things.

Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
(baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
(chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal

device producing electricity

Arabic: بطارية (ar) (baṭṭāriyyah) f

Moroccan Arabic: باتري (bātrī)
Armenian: մարտկոց (hy) (martkoc’)
Bulgarian: батерия (bg) (baterija)
Catalan: bateria (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 電池 (cmn), 电池 (cmn) (diànchí)
Crimean Tatar: batareya
Czech: baterie (cs) f, baterka (cs) f
Danish: batteri (da)
Dutch: batterij (nl) f
Esperanto: pilo (eo)
Estonian: patarei (et)
Finnish: (not rechargeable) paristo (fi), (rechargeable) akku (fi)
French: pile (fr) f
Georgian: (small) ბატარეა (ka) (batarea), (car) აკუმულატორი (ka) (akumulatori)
German: Batterie (de) f
Greek: μπαταρία (el) (bataría)
Greenlandic: batteri (kl)
Hebrew: סוֹלְלָה (he) (solela) f, בטריה (he) (bataria) f (slang)
Hindi: विद्युत कोष (hi) (vidyut kosh),
Hungarian: elem (hu), akkumulátor (hu)
Icelandic: rafhlaða (is) f, batterí (is) n, (rechargeable, usually large, such as in vehicles) rafgeymir (is) m
Italian: pila (it) f

Japanese: 電池 (ja) (でんち, denchi), バッテリー (ja) (batterī)
Jèrriais: batt'tie f
Korean: 전지 (ko) (jeonji), 배터리 (ko) (baeteori)
Macedonian: батерија (mk) (batérija) f, акумулатор (mk) (akumulátor) m (for vehicles)
Malay: bateri (ms)
Manx: kishtey pooar (gv) m
Navajo: (car) chidí bijéí
Persian: باتری (fa) (bātri)
Polish: bateria (pl) f
Portuguese: pilha (pt) f, bateria (pt) f
Romanian: baterie (ro) f, pilă electrică (ro) f
Russian: батарея (ru) (bataréja) f, батарейка (ru) (bataréjka) f (small), аккумулятор (ru) (akkumuljátor) m (car)
Scottish Gaelic: bataraidh (gd) m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ба̀те̄рија (sh) f

Roman: bàtērija (sh) f
Slovene: bateríja (sl) f
Spanish: pila (es) f, batería (es) f
Swahili: betri (sw)
Swedish: batteri (sv) n
Thai: แบตเตอรี่ (th) (bàetdterrêe)
Turkish: pil (tr), (car) akü (tr)
Vietnamese: pin (vi)

crime of striking another

Armenian: ծեծ (hy) (çeç)
Bulgarian: побой (bg) (poboj)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 毆打 (cmn), 殴打 (cmn) (ōudǎ), 蓄意傷害 (cmn), 蓄意伤害 (cmn) (xùyì shānghài)
Czech: fyzické napadení (cs) n
Finnish: pahoinpitely (fi)

array of similar things

Chinese:

Mandarin: 一群 (cmn) (yī qún), 一組 (cmn), 一組 (cmn) (yī zǔ), 一系列 (cmn) (yī xìliè)
Czech: sestava (cs) f

coordinated group of artillery

Armenian: մարտկոց (hy) (martkoc’)
Bulgarian: батарея (bg) (batareja)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 砲兵連 (cmn), 炮兵连 (cmn) (pàobīng lián), 砲兵營 (cmn), 炮兵营 (cmn) (pàobīng yíng)
Crimean Tatar: batareya
Czech: baterie (cs) f
Dutch: batterij (nl) f
Finnish: patteri (fi), tykistöpatteri (fi)
French: batterie (fr) f
Georgian: ბატარეა (ka) (batarea)

German: (Artillerie) Batterie f
Greek: πυροβολαρχία (el) (pirrovolarkhía) f
Hebrew: גֻנְדָה (he) (gunda) f, סוללה (he) (solela) f, בטריה (he) (bat'eria) f (slang)
Jèrriais: batt'tie f
Macedonian: батерија (mk) (batérija) f
Manx: battree (gv) m
Romanian: baterie (ro) f
Russian: батарея (ru) (bataréja) f
Slovene: baterija (sl) f
Spanish: batería (es) f
Swedish: batteri (sv)

set of cages for hens