batil

English

Alternative forms

• bateel, battil

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَتِيل (batīl).

Noun

batil (plural batils)

1. A type of traditional sailing vessel used in the Arabian Sea.
   • 1877, Charles Rathbone Low, The History of the Indian Navy‎^[1]:

     The Batil, a vessel with a long fiddle-headed bow and two masts, which may be distinguished from other craft by the inner part of the stern-post being ornamented with devices cut in the wood.

   • 2020 August 20, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire‎^[2], HarperCollins UK, →ISBN, page 157:

     While baghlas and their smaller equivalents, battils, were used for Arab trade between the west coast of India and the Gulf, European-style ships were also increasingly prevalent in this trade.

Anagrams

• -bital, Talib, bilat, balti, Bălți, Balti

Cebuano

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-der.

Germanicbor.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-der.

Gaulishbor.

Latin battuō

Latin battere

Spanish batirbor.

Cebuano batil

Borrowed from Spanish batir. Compare Central Bikol bati and Tagalog bati.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba‧til
• IPA^(key): /baˈtil/ [baˈt̪il̪]

Verb

batíl

1. to beat; to whip; to whisk
2. (euphemistic) to masturbate

   Synonyms: jakol, lulo, ul-ol

Noun

batil

1. (slang) masturbation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:batil.

Derived terms

• binatilay

Related terms

• batirol

Anagrams

• bilat, labit, latbi, libat, tabil

Ilocano

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-der.

Germanicbor.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-der.

Gaulishbor.

Latin battuō

Latin battere

Spanish batirbor.

Ilocano batil

Borrowed from Spanish batir.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba‧tíl
• IPA^(key): /baˈtil/, [bɐˈtil]

Noun

batíl

1. beat; whisk

Derived terms

• batilen

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbatil/ [ˈba.t̪ɪl]
• Rhymes: -atil
• Syllabification: ba‧til

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay batil, from Classical Malay batil, from Tamil வட்டில் (vaṭṭil, “cup”).

Noun

batil (plural batil-batil)

1. (obsolete) container, vessel

   Synonym: wadah

Compounds

• batil belanja
• batil bertudung
• batil bertutup

Etymology 2

Inherited from Malay batil, from Classical Malay batil, from Arabic بَاطِل (bāṭil).

Adjective

batil (comparative lebih batil, superlative paling batil)

1. (archaic) null, invalid

   Synonyms: batal, sia-sia

2. (archaic) false: not true, not right

   Antonym: hak

Noun

batil (plural batil-batil)

1. (Islam) falsehood, wrong, injustice

   Synonyms: kesalahan, kejahatan, kemungkaran

Further reading

• “batil”, 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