Meaning of "Batak" in the Malay dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF BATAK IN MALAY

Batak

WHAT DOES BATAK MEAN IN MALAY?

Batak tribe

Suku Batak

Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of ethnic groups found in highland areas in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Their interior is located in the west of Medan and is centered on Lake Toba. Actually the "Batak" people are made up of different ethnic groups but have similar language, culture and customs. Although the term "Batak" is used for Toba, Karo, Pak Pak, Simalungun, Angkola and Mandailing, there are those who do not like to be Batak people. Before they were colonized by the Dutch East Indies, Batak tribes had a reputation as fierce heroes who sometimes practiced cannibalism. With the arrival of the Dutch colonizers, many of them had converted to Christianity. HKBP Church is a church with the most populous in Indonesia. The Batak society is pious. The famous Batak handicrafts include woven, wood carvings and especially gravestone carvings. Their burial ceremony is very rich and complex.

Batak adalah sebuah istilah kolektif yang digunakan untuk mengenal pasti sebilangan kumpulan etnik yang terdapat di kawasan tanah tinggi di Sumatra Utara, Indonesia. Kawasan pedalaman mereka terletak di sebelah barat Medan dan berpusat di Danau Toba. Sebenarnya orang "Batak" terdiri daripada beberapa kumpulan etnik yang berbeza tetapi mempunyai bahasa, budaya dan adat yang agak serupa. Walaupun istilah "Batak" digunakan untuk orang-orang Toba, Karo, Pak Pak, Simalungun, Angkola dan Mandailing, ada di kalangan mereka yang tidak suka dikenali sebagai orang Batak. Sebelum mereka dijajah oleh Hindia Timur Belanda, suku Batak mempunyai reputasi sebagai pahlawan-pahlawan yang garang yang kadangkala mengamalkan kanibalisme. Dengan ketibaan penjajah Belanda, ramai di antara mereka telah memeluk agama Kristian. Gereja HKBP merupakan sebuah gereja dengan penganut paling ramai di Indonesia. Masyarakat Batak adalah bersifat kebapaan. Hasil kraf tangan Batak yang terkenal termasuk hasil tenunan, ukiran kayu dan terutama sekali, ukiran batu-batu nisan. Upacara pengkebumian mereka sangat kaya dan kompleks.

Definition of Batak in the Malay dictionary

Batak II; people ~ a) natural persons; b) ethnic groups living in Sumatra; regret as if it were in a group of disasters, then one accused another guilty.

Batak II; orang ~ a) orang asli; b) suku bangsa yg hidup di Sumatera; bersesalan bagai ~ lari prb jikalau di dlm suatu kelompok terjadi bencana, maka satu menuduh yg lain yg bersalah.

TRANSLATION OF BATAK

Find out the translation of Batak to 25 languages with our Malay multilingual translator.

The translations of Batak from Malay to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Batak» in Malay.

• Translator Malay - Chinese: 流浪者
• Translator Malay - Spanish: vagabundo
• Translator Malay - English: vagabond
• Translator Malay - Hindi: आवारा
• Translator Malay - Arabic: متشرد
• Translator Malay - Russian: бродяга
• Translator Malay - Portuguese: vagabundo
• Translator Malay - Bengali: ভবঘুরে
• Translator Malay - French: vagabond
• Malay: Batak
• Translator Malay - German: Vagabund
• Translator Malay - Japanese: 放浪者
• Translator Malay - Korean: 부랑자
• Translator Malay - Javanese: Vagabond
• Translator Malay - Vietnamese: người đi lang thang
• Translator Malay - Tamil: நாடோடி
• Translator Malay - Marathi: परागंदा होणे लादले आहेस
• Translator Malay - Turkish: avare
• Translator Malay - Italian: vagabondo
• Translator Malay - Polish: włóczęga
• Translator Malay - Ukrainian: бродяга
• Translator Malay - Romanian: vagabond
• Translator Malay - Greek: αλήτης
• Translator Malay - Afrikaans: Vagabond
• Translator Malay - Swedish: vagabond
• Translator Malay - Norwegian: Vagabond

10 MALAY BOOKS RELATING TO «BATAK»

Discover the use of Batak in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Batak and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Malay literature.

Batak Resource Management: Belief, Knowledge, and ...

This report records traditional Batak beliefs, knowledge, and practice in the area of natural resource management. It assesses where Batak practices stand today and evaluates the prospects for community-based sustainable management.

James F. Eder, ‎IUCN Forest Conservation Programme, ‎World Wide Fund for Nature. Forest Programme, 1997

Orang Batak kasar?: membangun citra & karakter : ...

On philosophy and self image of Batak people from North Sumatera Province.

Djapiter Tinambunan, 2010

Orang Batak naik haji

Author's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca.

Baharuddin Aritonang, 2002

Batak Cloth and Clothing: A Dynamic Indonesian Tradition

s factors which inspired these people to wear Malay and European styles on a daily basis and to reserve the use of their hipcloths and shouldercloths for ceremonial occasions.

S. A. Niessen, 1993

Batak sculpture

This lavishly illustrated book, which includes literally hundreds of previously unpublished masterpieces of Batak sculpture from the Delta Collection, will change that forever.

Achim Sibeth, ‎Bruce W. Carpenter, 2007

Orang Batak Berpuasa

Fasting ritual of the Bataks during the month of Ramadan.

Baharuddin Aritonang, 2007

A Grammar of Toba Batak - Halaman xxxvii

Sometimes an explanation seemed called for, in cases where Van der Tuuk made use of typically Dutch phenomena, linguistic or otherwise, in order to explain Batak facts. And in a few cases even this remarkably consistent and accurate book ...

Herman Neubronner van der van der Tuuk, 2013

Orang Karo diantara orang Batak

History and sociocultural conditions of Karo-Batak people in Indonesia.

Martin Luther Peranginangin, 2004

Orang Batak memandang BPK

Author's account as the former chief of Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan, an audit board of the Republic of Indonesia.

Baharuddin Aritonang, 2009

Bahasa Batak Toba untuk pemula-naposobulung

Study of Toba Batak language.

Richard Sinaga, 2007