“bato” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, →OCLC, page 18.
“bato” in Flamenco - Caló, El Flamenco.
“bato” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈba.tu]
IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈba.to]

bato

first-person singular present indicative of batre

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu. Compare Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Hiligaynon bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu and Maori whatu.

The sense of "kidney" is a semantic loan from Tagalog bato.

Hyphenation: ba‧to
IPA^(key): /baˈto/ [bɐˈt̪o]

bató

stone; pebble, rock, or boulder
gem
(medicine) kidney stone
Synonym: bato sa rinyon
(medicine) gallstone
Synonym: bato sa apdo
piece in chess, checkers, sungka or similar games
(bingo) token
flint of a lighter
(anatomy) kidney
Synonyms: amimislon, rinyon

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bato.

bató

to harden into stone
to stand motionless
to put stones into jewelry
to use something as a sinker
to strike the flint of a lighter
to stone
to line with stones
(by extension) to hurl an object at someone or something
to throw out a question
to embroil; to cause to be involved

bató

stone
concrete (made of concrete)
stonehard
rocklike; stonelike

bato sa apdo (“gallstone”)
bato sa rinyon
bato-bato (“anchor; sinker; stone used in artificial jewelry”)
batobalani
batong buhi
batoon (“rocky; stony; full of pimples”)
binato (“firm, round and oval-shaped purple yam”)
kabatoan (“place full of rocks”)
kabatohan (“scree”)
pamato (“anchor; sinker; anchorman in a relay; best bet; spending money”)

Hyphenation: ba‧to
IPA^(key): /ˈbato/ [ˈba.t̪o]

bato

to borrow money
to buy something for credit

batu

Compare Caló bato.

IPA^(key): /bato/

bato

father

Alexandre Baudrimont (1862) “bato”, in Vocabulaire de la langue des Bohémiens habitant les pays basques français [Vocabulary of the language of the Roma living in the French Basque Country], Bordeaux: G. Gounouilhou, →OCLC

From bati +‎ -o.

IPA^(key): [ˈbato]
Rhymes: -ato
Hyphenation: ba‧to

bato (accusative singular baton, plural batoj, accusative plural batojn)

blow, hit, strike, stroke (physical attack, punch)
Synonym: frapo

bato

first-person singular present indicative of bater

Likely from French bateau

IPA^(key): /bā.tō/

bato (plural bato lɛ́ or bato lẹ́)

ship

From French bateau (“boat”).

IPA^(key): /baˈto/

bato

boat, ship

batiman

bato

stone, rock

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu (compare Cebuano bato, Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Ilocano bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu, Maori whatu, Sundanese batu, Tagalog bato).

bató

rock, stone, cobble

bató

to stone

báto

a complete thing, the whole
a piece of anything that is round or cubic in shape

bátò

to resist or oppose
to rise up
to backtalk

IPA^(key): /ˈbato/
Rhymes: -ato
Hyphenation: ba‧to

bato (plural bati)

beating

batar

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu (compare Cebuano bato, Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Hiligaynon bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu, Maori whatu, Sundanese batu, Tagalog bato).

bato

rock, stone, cobble

Borrowed from Late Latin batus, from Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos), from Biblical Hebrew בַּת (bat).

IPA^(key): /ˈba.to/
Rhymes: -ato
Hyphenation: bà‧to

bato m (plural bati)

(historical) bath (unit of liquid measure)

bato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

(Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /baˈto/ [bʌˈto]
Rhymes: -o
Syllabification: ba‧to

bató

rock; stone

kabatoan

Unknown; possibly of onomatopoeic origin.^[1]

Documented in a glossary from the late eighth century, which translates batat (“yawns”) as the Anglo-Saxon ginath^[2] (= Old English ġinaþ).

battō (misspelling?)
badō

batō (present infinitive batāre, perfect active batāvī, supine batātum); first conjugation (Early Medieval Latin)

to yawn
to gape open

bataculō

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: badare, ⇒ abbadare
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: badar
- Old French: beer (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: badar
  - Occitan: badar
Gallo-Italic:
- Romagnol: badêr, ⇒ abadêr
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *exbatāre
- Gallo-Romance:
  - Catalan: esbadar
  - Occitan: esbadar
  - Old French: esbaer, esbahir (see there for further descendants)

^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “batare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 287
^ Hessels, John Henry. 1906. A late eighth-century Latin-Anglo-Saxon glossary preserved in the library of the Leiden University. Cambridge University Press. Page 69.

batō

dative/ablative singular of batus

bato class 2

plural of moto

From batu, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu.

bato

stone

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

bato

stone; rock
(gambling) chips

batobarani' (“magnet”)
batobato (“hump”)
batokapala (“headstone”)
paribato

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

bató

stone; rock

From French bateau.

bato

boat

Phillip Baker, Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing (1987) Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français (in French)

IPA^(key): /ˈba.tu/

Rhymes: -atu
Hyphenation: ba‧to

bato

first-person singular present indicative of bater

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

bató

stone

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

bató

stone; rock

From French bateau.

bato

boat

Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

IPA^(key): /ˈbato/ [ˈba.t̪o]
Rhymes: -ato
Syllabification: ba‧to

Probably from Ancient Greek βάττος (báttos, “stutterer”), of imitative origin. See also βατταλογέω (battalogéō, “to stammer”), English bay⁴ (“to bark, bay, howl”).^[1]

bato m (plural batos)

(dated) dork, dimwit
(Latin America, informal) young man, youth
(Mexico, colloquial) chump, punk
(Mexico, colloquial) dude, guy, buddy

From Caló bato.

bato m (plural batos)

(Spain, slang) father
Synonyms: padre, papá, jefe

bato

first-person singular present indicative of batir

^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

“bato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
“bato”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu. Compare Bikol Central bato, Capiznon bato, Cebuano bato, Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Hiligaynon bato, Ilocano bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu, Maori whatu, Niuean patu, Pangasinan bato, Ratagnon bato, Sundanese batu, and Waray-Waray bato.

(Standard Tagalog)
- IPA^(key): /baˈto/ [bɐˈt̪o] (“stone; kidney; gallstone; gem; knot in wood; act of throwing; bored person; (slang) meth”, noun)
  - Rhymes: -o
  - Homophone: Bato
- IPA^(key): /ˈbatoʔ/ [ˈbaː.t̪oʔ] (“chief piece in a game of native quoits called tangga”, noun)
  - Rhymes: -atoʔ
Syllabification: ba‧to

bató (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)

stone
Synonym: piyedra
(anatomy) kidney
Synonym: rinyon
gallstone
gem; jewel
Synonym: hiyas
knot in wood
act of throwing something
Synonyms: tapon, hagis, itsa, balibag, salya
(idiomatic, colloquial) bored person
(slang) methamphetamine
Synonyms: agimat, shabu

batò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)

chief piece in a game of native quoits called tangga

pato

bató (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)

“bato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

tabo, abot, taob, bota

bato

only, exclusively
haka ngori maobo bato ― give me only the bone
just, merely
ana isedu bato ― they just joked

Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh