# batas
## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧tas

### Verb

batas
* to cut down and harvest a bamboo culm

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbatas/

### Verb

batas
* present of bati

## Galician
### Verb

batas
* second-person singular present subjunctive of bater

## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbatas/

### Verb

batas
* present of batar

## Indonesian
### 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: [ˈba.tas]
* Hyphenation: ba‧tas

### Noun

batas
* border (the outer edge of something)
* limit (a restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go)

#### Synonyms

* perhinggaan
* sempadan

#### Derived terms

* batasan
* batasi
* berbatas
* berbatasan
* berbataskan
* keterbatasan
* membatas
* membatasi
* pembatas
* pembatasan
* perbatasan
* sebatas
* terbatas
* terbatasi
* 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
* shoe
* boot

#### Declension
## 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: [ˈba.tas]
* Hyphenation: ba‧tas

### Noun

batas (Jawi spelling باتس, plural batas-batas, informal 1st possessive batasku, 2nd possessive batasmu, 3rd possessive batasnya)
* limit: a restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

#### Synonyms

* had

### Further reading

* “batas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Maranao
### Noun

batas
* (card games) suit

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɑː.tɑs/

### Noun

bātas
* nominative/accusative plural of bāt

## Portuguese
### Verb

batas
* second-person singular present subjunctive of bater

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbatas/ [ˈba.t̪as]
* Rhymes: -atas
* Syllabification: ba‧tas

### Noun

batas f pl
* plural of bata

### Verb

batas
* 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: /baˈtas/ [bɐˈt̪as]
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: ba‧tas

#### Noun

batás (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜐ᜔)
* law
    Synonyms: kautusan, (archaic) ley
* decree
    Synonym: dekreto
* command
    Synonyms: utos, mando
* (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
* 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: /ˈbatas/ [ˈbaː.t̪ɐs]
* Rhymes: -atas
* Syllabification: ba‧tas

#### Noun

batas (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜐ᜔)
* unstitching of clothes
    Synonym: tastas
* 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 (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (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, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 87: “Atajar) Batas [(pp)] por eſtero yendo navegando”
** page 232: “Deſcoſer) Batas (pp) la ropa”

### Anagrams

* sabat, tabas, basta