batas

See also: batás and bâtas

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba‧tas

Verb

batas

1. to cut down and harvest a bamboo culm

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbatas/

Verb

batas

1. present of bati

Galician

Verb

batas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of bater

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbatas/

Verb

batas

1. present of batar

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay batas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batəs. Doublet of watas. Cognate of Iban batas (“raised path”), Toba Batak batos, Javanese ꦮꦠꦼꦱ꧀ (wates), Balinese bates, and Sasak bates.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbatas/ [ˈba.t̪as]
• Rhymes: -atas
• Syllabification: ba‧tas

Noun

batas

1. border (the outer edge of something)
2. limit (a restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go)
3. cutoff
4. bound
5. boundary
6. margin

Synonyms

• perhinggaan
• sempadan

Derived terms

Affixations

• batasan
• batasi
• berbatas
• berbatasan
• berbataskan
• keterbatasan
• membatas
• membatasi
• pembatas
• pembatasan
• perbatasan
• sebatas
• terbatas
• terbatasi

Compounds

• batas apkir
• batas cair
• batas elastik
• batas iklim
• batas lenting
• batas pemandangan
• batas penanggalan internasional
• batas retensi

Further reading

• “batas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Lithuanian

Noun

bãtas m stress pattern 2

1. shoe
2. boot

Declension

Declension of batas

nominative	batas
genitive	bato
dative	batui
accusative	batą
instrumental	batu
locative	bate
vocative	bate

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batəs. Cognate of Iban batas (“raised path”), Toba Batak batos, Javanese ꦮꦠꦼꦱ꧀ (wates), Balinese bates, and Sasak bates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.tas]
• Hyphenation: ba‧tas

Noun

batas (Jawi spelling باتس, plural batas-batas or batas²)

1. limit: a restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

Synonyms

• had

Further reading

• "batas" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Maranao

Noun

batas

1. (card games) suit

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.tɑs/

Noun

bātas

1. nominative/accusative plural of bāt

Portuguese

Verb

batas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of bater

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbatas/ [ˈba.t̪as]
• Rhymes: -atas
• Syllabification: ba‧tas

Noun

batas f pl

1. plural of bata

Verb

batas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of batir

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Possibly from Cebuano batas (“proposition of a rule or law”), or back-formation from Cebuano batasan (“custom; tradition”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈtas/ [bɐˈt̪as]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: ba‧tas

Noun

batás (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜐ᜔)

1. law

   Synonyms: kautusan, (archaic) ley

2. decree

   Synonym: dekreto

3. command

   Synonyms: utos, mando

4. (obsolete) notification of an order or mandate

   Synonym: pahayag

Derived terms

• alagad ng batas
• batas administratibo
• batas militar
• batas pambansa
• batas republika
• batas trapiko
• batasan
• Batasang Pambansa
• bisig ng batas
• dalubbatas
• ibatas
• isabatas
• likas na batas
• magbatas
• magsabatas
• mambabatas
• pagbabatas
• pambatas
• pambatasan
• panukalang-batas
• saligang-batas
• tagapagbatas
• takda ng batas
• talabatasan

Etymology 2

Possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bə(ʀ)tas (“tear, rip open (as cloth or stitches), snap (as string)”) via Malay betas (“ripping open, splitting open”). Possible doublet of bagtas and bigtas.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbatas/ [ˈbaː.t̪ɐs]
• Rhymes: -atas
• Syllabification: ba‧tas

Noun

batas (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜐ᜔)

1. unstitching of clothes

   Synonym: tastas

2. shortcut (such as estuary when traveling by water)

   Synonym: bagtasan

Derived terms

• batasan
• batasin
• mabatas
• magbatas
• mamatas
• pagbabatas
• pamamatas
• pamatasan

Related terms

• bagtas
• bigtas
• bitas
• butas
• pigtas
• tastas

Further reading

• “batas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Daluz, Eusebio T. (1915), Filipino-English vocabulary: with practical example of Filipino and English grammars, Manila: Akademya ng Wikang Filipino, page 15.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835), Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala, primera y segunda parte. En la primera, se pone primero el Castellano, y despues el Tagalo. Y en la segunda al contrario, que son las raíces simples con sus acentos.‎^[2] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: La Imprenta nueva de D. José María Dayot, por Tomás Oliva.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[3] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag.
  • page 87: “Atajar) Batas [(pp)] por eſtero yendo navegando”
  • page 232: “Deſcoſer) Batas (pp) la ropa”

Anagrams

• sabat, tabas, basta