batik

Borrowed from Javanese bathik.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈtiːk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːk

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.

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.

From Javanese bathik.

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

batik

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

• mbatik
• batikan

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

batik

1. tattoo

From Javanese bathik.

• Hyphenation: ba‧tik

batik

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

batik

1. to dye a fabric using this method

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

batik

1. pig trap

Borrowed from Dutch batik, from Javanese bathik.

• IPA^(key): /ba.tik/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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batik m (uncountable)

1. batik

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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batik

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

Inherited from Malay batik, from Javanese bathik, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bətik (“tattoo”), from Proto-Austronesian *bəCik.

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

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)

batik (active membatik, passive dibatik)

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

• “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

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch batik, from Javanese bathik.

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

batik m (invariable)

1. batik

batik

1. nonstandard form of bathik

Borrowed from Javanese bathik.

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

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

1. batik

• > Indonesian: batik (inherited)

• “batik”, in Kamus Dewan [The Institute Dictionary] (in Malay), Fourth edition, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2005, →ISBN

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

From Javanese bathik.

batik

1. batik fabric

batik

1. to coagulate
2. to solidify

Borrowed from French batik, from Dutch batik, from Javanese bathik.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.tik/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atik
• Syllabification: ba‧tik

batik m inan

1. batik

• “batik”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “batik”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

From Dutch batik, from Javanese bathik.

batik m (plural batiks)

1. alternative form of batique

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

batik

1. tattoo

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

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

batík (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜒᜃ᜔)

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

Borrowed from Javanese bathik.

batík (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜒᜃ᜔)

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

• “batik”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993), Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎^[3], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

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

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

batik

1. to write
2. to carve