bato

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu.

• IPA^(key): /baˈto/ [baˈt̪o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ba‧to

bató

1. stone
2. throwing of stones

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

báto

1. piece; unit

• IPA^(key): /ˈbatoʔ/ [ˈbaː.t̪oʔ]
• Rhymes: -atoʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧to

batò

1. fighting back

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

bató

1. stone
2. (anatomy) kidney

From French bateau.

bato

1. boat

bato

1. water

   Synonyms: kokoin, yarro

   • 1892, An Australian Language as Spoken by the Awabakal‎^[1] (in English):

     Bato, m., water

• Awabakal language dictionary

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀.

bato

1. people

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀.

bato class 2

1. plural of moto.

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

bato

1. rock; stone

• batu, batú

bato m (plural batuces)

1. father

   Synonyms: batico, (affectionate) dada

• “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

1. 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 Māori whatu.

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

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

bató

1. stone; pebble, rock, or boulder
2. gem
   • 2017 — Nalzaro, Bobby, Mga Panglantaw sa Year of the Rooster (03 January), Saksi, SuperBalita Cebu

     Sa teyoriya sa Chinese Horoscope, ang Chicken mao ang Female Metal nga dunay kalambigitan sa mahalon nga bato sa mga alahas sama sa bulawan. Gumikan niini ang tuig sa mga sunoy nagtimaan sa mga luho, katahum og kaabunda.

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3. (medicine) kidney stone

   Synonym: bato sa rinyon

   • 2018 — Espedilla, Fritz Legarde, Gudyo Makabalo og mga Pagkaon Mopakgang sa Bato sa Renyon (27 March), Meditalk, SuperBalita Cebu

     Sa niagi, akong gituki nga kung aduna ka nay bato', pangutan-a ang imong doctor, kung unsa nga klase ang bato sa imong renyon.

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4. (medicine) gallstone

   Synonym: bato sa apdo

   • 2012 November 19, Roldan, Emmanuel C, “Inato nga Pagtangtang sa Bato sa Apdo”, in SuperBalita Cebu:

     Pagka-ugma, makita nimo ang mga berdeng bato nga niguwa kauban sa imong hugaw. Kasagaran molutaw kini sa tubig sa iniduro. Matud pa ni Dr. Lai nga may pasyente siya nga adunay 40-100 ka gagmay'ng bato. Bisan kadtong walay simtomas sa bato sa apdo matingala nga may bato nga mogawas sa ilang lawas. Mas maayo gani nga limpyohan nato panalagsa ang atong tiyan sa daghang toxins gikan sa atong pagkaon sama sa pag-inom og daghang tubig ug pagkaon og presko nga prutas matag adlaw.

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5. piece in chess, checkers, sungka or similar games
6. (bingo) token
7. flint of a lighter
8. (anatomy) kidney

   Synonyms: amimislon, rinyon

   • 2017 December 8, “Alex ug Hero sa MMK”, in SuperBalita Cebu:

     Si Alex ang modala sa karakter nga dunay sakit sa bato. Samtang si Hero ang mohatag sa iyang bato o kidney aron mabuhi pa ang iyang minahal.

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bató

1. to harden into stone
2. to stand motionless
3. to put stones into jewelry
4. to use something as a sinker
5. to strike the flint of a lighter
6. to stone
7. to line with stones
8. (by extension) to hurl an object at someone or something
9. to throw out a question
10. to embroil; to cause to be involved

bató

1. stone
2. concrete (made of concrete)
3. stonehard
4. rocklike; stonelike

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

bato

1. to borrow money
2. to buy something for credit

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

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

bató (Basahan spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)

1. (anatomy) kidney
2. (Daet) rock; stone

   Synonym: gapo

• Hyphenation: ba‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈbatoʔ/ [ˈba.toʔ]

batò (Basahan spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)

1. cue ball

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀

bato class 2

1. plural of moto.

• batu

Compare Caló bato.

• IPA^(key): /bato/

bato

1. 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/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ba‧to

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

1. blow, hit, strike, stroke (physical attack, punch)

   Synonym: frapo

bato

1. first-person singular present indicative of bater

Likely from French bateau

• IPA^(key): /bā.tō/

bato (plural bato lɛ́ or bato lẹ́)

1. ship

From French bateau (“boat”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈto/

bato

1. boat, ship

• batiman

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 22

bato

1. 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, Māori whatu, Sundanese batu, Tagalog bato).

bató

1. rock, stone, cobble

bató

1. to stone

báto

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

bátò

1. to resist or oppose
2. to rise up
3. to backtalk

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

bato (plural bati)

1. beating

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, Māori whatu, Sundanese batu, Tagalog bato).

bato

1. 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)

1. (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.

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

bató

1. rock; stone

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀játò.

bato

1. boat
2. ship

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)

1. to yawn
2. to gape open

• bataculō

batō

1. dative/ablative singular of batus

See Lingala batu.

bato class 2

1. plural of motu

From batu, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu.

bato

1. stone

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

bato

1. stone; rock
2. (gambling) chips

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

bató

1. stone; rock

From French bateau.

bato

1. boat

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

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ba‧to

bato

1. first-person singular present indicative of bater

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

bató

1. stone

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

bató

1. stone; rock

From French bateau.

bato

1. boat

• D'Offay, Danielle; Lionnet, Guy (1982), Diksyonner kreol-franse [Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Hamburg: Buske, →ISBN

• 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)

1. (dated) dork, dimwit
2. (Latin America, informal) young man, youth
3. (Mexico, colloquial) chump, punk
4. (Mexico, colloquial) dude, guy, buddy

From Caló bato.

bato m (plural batos)

1. (Spain, slang) father

   Synonyms: padre, papá, jefe

bato

1. first-person singular present indicative of batir

• “bato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “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

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batux. Compare Central Bikol bato, Capiznon bato, Cebuano bato, Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Hiligaynon bato, Ilocano bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu, Māori 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)

    • Audio:

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    • 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)

1. stone

   Synonym: piyedra

2. rock

   Synonym: roka

3. (anatomy) kidney

   Synonym: rinyon

4. gallstone
5. gem; jewel

   Synonym: hiyas

6. knot in wood
7. act of throwing something

   Synonyms: tapon, hagis, itsa, balibag, salya

8. (games) rock (closed hand in rock paper scissors)
9. (idiomatic, colloquial) bored person
10. (slang) methamphetamine

    Synonyms: agimat, shabu

batò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)

1. chief piece in a game of native quoits called tangga

bató (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)

1. (figurative) stingy; miserly
2. (figurative) stubborn; unyielding
3. (figurative) numb
4. (idiomatic, colloquial) bored

• “bato”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “bato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*batux”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• tabo, abot, taob, bota

bato

1. only, exclusively

   haka ngori maobo bato ― give me only the bone

2. 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