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batu

Pronunciation: /ˈba.tu/

“batu” is an Indonesian word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

  1. stone, rock
  2. rock (a formation of minerals)
  3. agate
  4. an artificial jewel, especially one that is used to smooth the shafts of a watch
  5. flint (a hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck)
  6. battery
  7. milestone (one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals)
  8. customary money placed on betel in even numbers, for example 8 pieces or sheets
  9. money given by the husband to the ninik mamak to take care of the divorce
  10. the size for narcotics, especially marijuana, 2 kilograms

adjective

  1. rocky, stony (not easily affected or impressed; obdurate; unfeeling)

classifier

  1. a classifier used for counting teeth and pawns

verb

  1. to eat together in the same container, usually done by two or three people

Etymology

Inherited from Malay batu, from Proto-Malayic *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batux. * For the sense of battery, compare Betawi batu (“stone, battery cell”), dialectal Chinese 電石／电石 (“battery”, literally “electric stone”), and Japanese 電石(エレクトレット) (erekutoretto, “electret”). * For the sense of gemstone and agate, compare to Baba Malay batu (“gem”, literally…

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