batik

See also: Batik

English

WOTD – 2 October 2015

A batik worker in Indonesia

Etymology

From Dutch batik, from Javanese bathik (ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈtiːk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːk

Noun

batik (countable and uncountable, plural batiks)

1. A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.
   • 1928, Nella Larsen, “14”, in Quicksand, page 162:

     There were batik dresses in which mingled indigo, orange, green, vermilion, and black; dresses of velvet and chiffon in screaming colors, blood-red, sulphur-yellow, sea-green; and one black and white thing in striking combination.

   • 2018 February 13, Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater, Grove Press, →ISBN:

     Look at her, whirling around the compound wearing batik shorts and a cotton shirt, her long black hair braided into two arcs fastened with colored bands, her teeth gleaming and one slipper broken.

Derived terms

• batiker
• batiking

Translations

A method of dyeing fabric

• Arabic: باتيك
• Azerbaijani: batika
• Banyumasan: batik
• Belarusian: батык (batyk)
• Bulgarian: батик (batik)
• Burmese: ပါတိတ် (my) (patit)
• Catalan: bàtik
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蠟染 / 蜡染 (zh) (làrǎn), 蠟纈 / 蜡缬 (zh) (làxié)

• Czech: batika f, batikování n
• Danish: batik (da)
• Esperanto: batiko
• Estonian: batika, batik (et)
• Finnish: batiikki (fi)
• French: batik (fr)
• German: Batik (de) f or m
• Hebrew: בטיק
• Ido: batiko (io)
• Indonesian: batik (id)
• Interlingua: batik
• Italian: batik
• Japanese: バティック (batikku)
• Javanese: bathik, bathik
• Lombard: batik, batik
• Malay: batik (ms)
• Persian: چاپ کلاقه‌ای
• Polish: batik (pl) m
• Portuguese: batique (pt) m, batik
• Romanian: batic (ro)
• Russian: ба́тик (ru) m (bátik)
• Serbo-Croatian: batik (sh)
• Slovene: batik
• Spanish: batik (es)
• Sundanese: batik
• Swedish: batik (sv) c
• Tagalog: batik
• Tajik: батик (batik)
• Ukrainian: батик (batyk)
• Vietnamese: lối in hoa ba-tic, batik (vi)

Verb

batik (third-person singular simple present batiks, present participle batiking, simple past and past participle batiked)

1. To dye fabric using the wax-resist method.

Translations

to dye fabric using the wax-resist method

• Czech: batikovat impf
• German: batiken (de)
• Polish: batikować impf

Banyumasan

Etymology

From Javanese ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀ (bathik).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ʈɪʔ/
• Rhymes: -aʈɪʔ
• Hyphenation: ba‧thik

Noun

batik

1. a texture-picture drawing on a textile material by using wax.
2. clothing with batik texture.

Derived terms

• mbatik
• batikan

Burusu

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bətik, from Proto-Austronesian *bəCik.

Noun

batik

1. tattoo

Cebuano

Etymology

From Javanese ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀ (bathik).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba‧tik

Noun

batik

1. batik; a method of dyeing fabric
2. the fabric that has been dyed this way

Verb

batik

1. to dye a fabric using this method

Dibabawon Manobo

Etymology

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

Noun

batik

1. pig trap

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch batik, from Javanese ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀ (bathik).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.tik/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

batik m (uncountable)

1. batik

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

batik

1. singular imperative of batiken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of batiken

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese bathik (ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bətik (“tattoo”), from Proto-Austronesian *bəCik.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbatiʔ/ [ˈba.t̪ɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -atiʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧tik

Noun

batik (plural batik-batik)

1. batio (a wax-resist method of dyeing fabric)
2. batik (a texture-picture drawing on a textile material by using wax)

Verb

batik (active membatik, passive dibatik)

1. (ambitransitive) to batik (to dye using the wax-resist method)

Derived terms

• batikan
• berbatik (“to wear a batik”)
• pembatik (“batik maker”)
• pembatikan (“the act of doing batik”)
• perbatikan

Further reading

• “batik”, 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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch batik, from Javanese ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀ (bathik).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈtik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Hyphenation: ba‧tìk

Noun

batik m (invariable)

1. batik

Javanese

Romanization

batik

1. romanization of ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀ (bathik).

Pronunciation

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈbatek/ [ˈba.t̪eʔ]
  • Rhymes: -ateʔ, -teʔ, -eʔ
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈbatik/ [ˈba.t̪iʔ]
  • Rhymes: -atiʔ, -tiʔ, -iʔ
• Hyphenation: ba‧tik

Noun

batik (Jawi spelling باتيق, plural batik-batik or batik²)

1. batik

Derived terms

Affixations

• membatik
• pembatik
• pembatikan

Further reading

• “batik”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Maranao

Etymology

From Javanese bathik (ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀).

Noun

batik

1. batik fabric

Verb

batik

1. to coagulate
2. to solidify

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French batik, from Dutch batik, from Javanese ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀ (bathik).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.tik/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atik
• Syllabification: ba‧tik

Noun

batik m inan

1. batik

Declension

Declension of batik

	singular
nominative	batik
genitive	batika
dative	batikowi
accusative	batik
instrumental	batikiem
locative	batiku
vocative	batiku

Derived terms

adjectives

• batikarski
• batikowy

verb

• batikować impf

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Dutch batik, from Javanese ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀ (bathik).

Noun

batik m (plural batiks)

1. alternative form of batique

Punan Tubu

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bətik, from Proto-Austronesian *bəCik.

Noun

batik

1. tattoo

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈtik/ [bɐˈt̪ɪk̚]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: ba‧tik

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *batik, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bətik, from Proto-Austronesian *bəCik (“tattoo”).

Noun

batík (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜒᜃ᜔)

1. spot; blemish; stain
2. (figurative) moral blemish

Derived terms

• batik-batik
• batikan
• bumatik
• mabatikan
• magbatik
• magbatik-batik
• magkabatik
• pagbatik-batikin

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀ (bathik).

Noun

batík (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜒᜃ᜔)

1. batik (Javanese patterned cloth drawn in wax)
2. (slang) beautiful thing; precious item

Derived terms

• batikan
• magbatik

Further reading

• “batik”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993), Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎^[1], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

Anagrams

• bikat, bakit, katib, tikab, bitak, kabit, tibak

Timugon Murut

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bətik, from Proto-Austronesian *bəCik (“tattoo”).

Verb

batik

1. to write
2. to carve