batara

From Old Javanese bhaṭāra (“a great lord”), from Sanskrit भट्टार (bhaṭṭāra, “revered, worshipful”).

batara (Balinese script ᬪᬝᬭ)

1. god

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batad (“millet, sorghum”), compare Tetum batar (“maize”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbataɾa]

batara

1. maize

• Coastal Konjo Dictionary - batara, SIL International, 2013-2021.

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batara m (plural bataras)

1. antshrike

• batara luisant

From Malay batara, betara, from Classical Malay batara, betala, betara, from Sanskrit भट्टार (bhaṭṭāra, “revered, worshipful”). Doublet of berhala.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ta.ra/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta‧ra

batara

1. (archaic) deva
2. (obsolete) king

• batari
• betara
• betari

• “batara”, 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

batara

1. body
2. corpse

From Old Javanese bhaṭāra (“a great lord”), from Sanskrit भट्टार (bhaṭṭāra, “revered, worshipful”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈtara/, [ɓa.ˈt̪ʰa.ra]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta‧ra

batara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨈᨑ)

1. deity (term from before Islamization).
2. title of one of the monarchs of Gowa and designation of the oldest princes of Parigi.
3. (poetic) god (in the Abrahamic sense)

   Synonym: karaeng

   Batara ttudang ri langiʼ, anjo namanngasseng-kamma, mappasiamaʼ, anaʼ tinang silaʼbakki

   O God, who sitteth in heaven, how dost Thou know how to bring together people who have never been together before?

   o, Batara, palappasaʼ-laloaʼ ri susaku

   oh God, deliver me from my misery

• A. A. Cense (2024), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎^[1], Brill, →DOI

From Old Javanese bhaṭāra (“a great lord”), from Sanskrit भट्टार (bhaṭṭāra, “revered, worshipful”). Doublet of brahala.

batara or ᮘᮒᮛ (batara)

1. God (in the Abrahamic sense)

   Synonyms: gusti, pangéran

2. god (in the non-Abrahamic sense, e.g. Hinduism or Sunda Wiwitan)

   Batara Wisnu – Vishnu

   Batara Tunggal – Batara Tunggal ("a deity in Sunda Wiwitan mythology")

3. title for a monarch

• Coolsma, S (1913), Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij