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

Alternative forms

• bates (informal)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

batas (first-person possessive batasku, second-person possessive batasmu, third-person possessive batasnya)

1. border (the outer edge of something)
2. limit (a restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go)

Synonyms

• perhinggaan
• sempadan

Derived terms

Affixed terms

• 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, 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 ᬩᬢᭂᬲ (bates), and Sasak bates.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

batas (plural batas-batas, informal 1st possessive batasku, 2nd possessive batasmu, 3rd possessive batasnya)

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

Synonyms

• had

Maranao

Noun

batas

1. (card games) suit

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/ [bɐˈtas]
• 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 militar
• batas pambansa
• batas republika
• batas trapiko
• batasan
• Batasang Pambansa
• bisig ng batas
• dalubbatas
• ibatas
• isabatas
• magbatas
• magbatas
• magsabatas
• mambabatas
• pagbabatas
• pambatas
• pambatasan
• panukalang-batas
• saligang-batas
• tagapagbatas
• takda ng batas

 

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/ [ˈba.tɐs]
• 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
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 87: “Atajar) Batas [(pp)] por eſtero yendo navegando”
  • page 232: “Deſcoſer) Batas (pp) la ropa”

Anagrams

• sabat, tabas