# batak
## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /batak/ [ba.t̪ak]
* Rhymes: -atak
* Hyphenation: ba‧tak

### Etymology 1
#### Numeral

batak
* ergative singular of bat (“one”)

#### Pronoun

batak
* ergative of bata (“one”)

### Etymology 2
#### Numeral

batak
* absolutive plural of bat (“one”)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

batak
* absolutive plural of bat (“dressing gown”)

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

batak
* ergative indefinite of bat (“dressing gown”)
* ergative singular of bat (“dressing gown”)

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧tak
* IPA: /ˈbatak/ [ˈba.t̪ɐk]

### Adjective

batak
* cracked; broken

### Verb

batak
* to cleave; to split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument
* to pay one's debts by splitting coconuts and bamboo

#### Derived terms

* balatakan (“clumps of bamboo where bamboo stems are usually extracted; debt to be paid by splitting coconuts and bamboo”)
* batakan (“board where something is sliced”)

## Gagauz
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish *باتاق (bataq) (first attested in the compound [script needed] (bataqlu) before 1451), from Proto-Turkic *batgak (“swamp, marsh”); cognate with Azerbaijani bataq and Turkish batak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑˈtɑk/
* Hyphenation: ba‧tak

### Noun

batak (definite accusative bataa, plural bataklar)
* swamp, marsh, bog, mire
* dirt
* (figurative) dirt, slander
** 2024 November 2, “Gagauzların üstünä batak atan națizma kertiinä gelän ksenofoblara polițiyadan protokollar”, in Ana Sözü‎:Gagauzların üstünä batak atan națizma kertiinä gelän ksenofoblara polițiyadan protokollarPolicy protocols to the xenophobes who slander (litterally, to throw dirt) at the Gagauz and come from the notch of Nazism

#### Derived terms

* bataklamaa
* bataklı
* bataklık
* kara batak

#### Related terms

* batı
* batmaa

### References

* ↑ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “batak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “batak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 28
* N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “батак”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 74

## Maranao
### Verb

batak
* to practice, to train

#### Derived terms

* batabatak

### Verb

batak
* to hammer (to form, as malleable metal), to temper, to refine (by pounding)

#### Derived terms

* bataka'
* batakan

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish باجاق (bacak) (Turkish bacak). Akin to bàdžak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bâtaːk/
* Hyphenation: ba‧tak

### Noun

bȁtāk m (Cyrillic spelling ба̏та̄к)
* leg (of a bird, frog etc.)

#### Declension
### References

* “batak”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Compare Cebuano batak, Hiligaynon batak, and Kapampangan batak.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /ˈbatak/ [ˈbaː.t̪ɐk̚] (noun)
*** Rhymes: -atak
** IPA: /baˈtak/ [bɐˈt̪ak̚] (adjective)
*** Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: ba‧tak

### Noun

batak (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜃ᜔)
* pull towards oneself; drag towards oneself; haul towards oneself
    Synonyms: hatak, hila, paghila, higit, kaladkad
* object which one pulls or drags towards oneself
* (slang) act of administering an illegal drug (such as methamphetamine, cannabis, etc.)

#### Derived terms

* batakan
* batakin
* bumatak
* ipambatak
* kabatakan
* kabatakang-kumot
* mabatak
* magbatak ng buto
* pagbatak
* pagkabatak
* pamatak
* pambatak

### Adjective

baták (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜃ᜔)
* pulled; stretched; taut; tight
    Synonyms: hapit, banat, unat, mabagting
* (colloquial, figurative) well-exercised; muscular; well-trained (of one's body)

### Anagrams

* tabak, bakat, takba

## Tetum
### Noun

batak
* dam; dyke

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish باتاق (batak), from Proto-Turkic *batgak (“swamp, marsh”). Related to batmak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑ.tɑk/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

batak
* swampy, soft underfoot
* (business) unsound

### Noun

batak (definite accusative batağı, plural bataklar)
* (geology) swamp, marsh, bog
* (card games) A card game.

#### Derived terms

* batakçı (“swindler”)
* batakhane (“gambling house; den of thieves”)
* bataklık (“swamp”)

### References

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “batak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315
* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
* “batak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu