batter

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbætə/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈbætɚ/
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• Canada, General-American: [ˈbæɾɚ]
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• homophone: badder (t-flapping)
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• rhymes with -ætə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: B AE1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”). Doublet of batture.

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Etymology tree English bat Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English batter From bat + -er (agent noun suffix).

From Middle English batteren, batren, bateren, a frequentative of Middle English batten, baten (“to beat”), equivalent to bat + -er (frequentative suffix).

172 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: ҡамыр (qamır) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Bulgarian: тесто (testo) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Catalan: barreja — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Chinese Mandarin: 麵糊 /面糊 (miànhù) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Czech: těsto — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Danish: dej — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Dutch: beslag — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Finnish: taikina — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Finnish: löysä taikina — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Finnish: kakkutaikina — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Finnish: lettutaikina — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Finnish: friteeraustaikina — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• French: pâte — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Galician: amoado — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• German: Backteig — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• German: Ausbackteig — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• German: Teig — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• German: Pfannkuchenteig — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• German: Eischwerteig — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• German: dünner Teig — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Greek: κουρκούτι (kourkoúti) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Hungarian: tészta — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Ido: pasto — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Irish: fuidreamh — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Italian: impasto — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Italian: pastella — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Korean: 반죽 (banjuk) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Macedonian: те́сто (tésto) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Macedonian: ка́ша (káša) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Māori: pokeranu — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Norman: farce — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Norwegian Bokmål: røre — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Norwegian Nynorsk: røre — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Polish: ciasto — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Portuguese: polme — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Portuguese: massa — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Russian: те́сто (tésto) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Russian: кляр (kljar) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Spanish: batido — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Spanish: rebozado — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Swedish: smet — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Turkish: bulamaç — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Turkish: sulu hamur — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Turkish: hamur — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Ukrainian: ті́сто (tísto) — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Welsh: cytew — beaten mixture of flour and liquid
• Bulgarian: запой (zapoj) — binge
• Dutch: zuippartij — binge
• Finnish: ryyppyputki — binge
• Finnish: putki — binge
• German: Gelage — binge
• German: Trinkgelage — binge
• German: Saufgelage — binge
• German: Besäufnis — binge
• Italian: bisboccia — binge
• Italian: gozzoviglia — binge
• Macedonian: пи́јанка (píjanka) — binge
• Russian: запо́й (zapój) — binge
• Spanish: botellón — binge
• Irish: cló brúite — bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form
• Bulgarian: наклон (naklon) — a slope
• Bulgarian: отстъп (otstǎp) — a slope
• Finnish: rinne — a slope
• German: Neigung — a slope
• German: Böschung — a slope
• German: Anlauf — a slope
• German: Dossierung — a slope
• Greek: κλίση (klísi) — a slope
• Māori: pānakitanga — a slope
• Spanish: pendiente — a slope
• Catalan: batedor — player attempting to hit the ball
• Chinese Mandarin: 击球手 — player attempting to hit the ball
• Czech: pálkař — player attempting to hit the ball
• Dutch: slagman — player attempting to hit the ball
• Finnish: lyöjä — player attempting to hit the ball
• French: batteur — player attempting to hit the ball
• French: frappeur — player attempting to hit the ball
• German: Batter — player attempting to hit the ball
• Hindi: बल्लेबाज़ (ballebāz) — player attempting to hit the ball
• Hungarian: ütő — player attempting to hit the ball
• Icelandic: kylfingur — player attempting to hit the ball
• Italian: battitore — player attempting to hit the ball
• Japanese: 打者 (dasha) — player attempting to hit the ball
• Japanese: バッター (battā) — player attempting to hit the ball
• Korean: 타자 (taja) — player attempting to hit the ball
• Korean: 배터 (baeteo) — player attempting to hit the ball
• Māori: kaihauhau — player attempting to hit the ball
• Māori: kaipao — player attempting to hit the ball
• Polish: pałkarz — player attempting to hit the ball
• Portuguese: batedor — player attempting to hit the ball
• Russian: бэ́ттер (bɛ́tter) — player attempting to hit the ball
• Russian: бью́щий (bʹjúščij) — player attempting to hit the ball
• Spanish: bateador — player attempting to hit the ball
• Swedish: slagman — player attempting to hit the ball
• Bulgarian: бия (bija) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Bulgarian: бухам (buham) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Bulgarian: блъскам (blǎskam) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Bulgarian: разнебитвам (raznebitvam) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Catalan: apallissar — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Catalan: estomacar — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Danish: slå — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Danish: slå ind — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Danish: banke — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Danish: smadre — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Dutch: inslaan — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Dutch: rammen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Esperanto: bati — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Esperanto: batadi — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Finnish: hakata — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Finnish: pahoinpidellä — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Finnish: piestä — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Galician: bater — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: rammen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: prügeln — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: schlagen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: auf etwas einprügeln — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: zerschmettern — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: zusammenschlagen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: einschlagen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: verprügeln — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: bombardieren — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: zerschlagen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: einstoßen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: klopfen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: beschießen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• German: heftig schlagen — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Greek: χτυπώ (chtypó) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Irish: tuargain — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Italian: battere — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Latin: tundō — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Macedonian: те́па (tépa) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Macedonian: би́е (bíe) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Māori: tātā — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Māori: tukituki — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Māori: koheri — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Māori: taitai — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Norwegian: slå — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Norwegian Bokmål: pryle — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Portuguese: bater — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Portuguese: espancar — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Romanian: bate — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Romanian: lovi — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Russian: избива́ть (izbivátʹ) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Russian: изби́ть (izbítʹ) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Russian: колоти́ть (kolotítʹ) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Russian: поколоти́ть (pokolotítʹ) — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Spanish: apalear — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Swedish: misshandla — to hit or strike violently and repeatedly
• Catalan: arrebossar — to coat with batter
• Danish: panere — to coat with batter
• Dutch: paneren — to coat with batter
• Esperanto: panumi — to coat with batter
• Finnish: taikinoida — to coat with batter
• Finnish: kastaa friteeraustaikinaan — to coat with batter
• Finnish: kastaa uppopaistotaikinaan — to coat with batter
• Galician: rebozar — to coat with batter
• Galician: empanar — to coat with batter
• German: panieren — to coat with batter
• German: einbacken — to coat with batter
• Italian: pastellare — to coat with batter
• Portuguese: empanar — to coat with batter
• Spanish: apanar — to coat with batter
• Spanish: rebozar — to coat with batter
• Spanish: empanar — to coat with batter
• Swedish: panera — to coat with batter
• Tagalog: rebosahin — to coat with batter
• Danish: hamre — to flatten metal
• Danish: udbanke — to flatten metal
• Dutch: platwalsen — to flatten metal
• Galician: bater — to flatten metal
• German: plattschlagen — to flatten metal
• Māori: takapapa — to flatten metal