Batá

Bata may refer to: In places:Bata, Afghanistan, a place in AfghanistanBata, Burgas Province, a place in Burgas Province, BulgariaBata, Pazardzhik Province, a village in BulgariaBata, Equatorial Guinea, a cityBata, Arad, a location in RomaniaBaťa Canal, a canal in the Czech RepublicBata, a Greek and Genoese colony in Russia
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Bata Shoes (in Czech Baťa, also Baťovy závody) is a large, family owned shoe company. It is currently headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and operates 4 business units worldwide – Bata Europe, Bata Asia Pacific-Africa, Bata Latin America and Bata North America. It has retail presence in over 50 countries, production facilities in 26 countries. In its history the company has sold 14 billion pairs of shoes.
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A Batá drum is a double-headed drum shaped like an hourglass with one cone larger than the other. The percussion instrument is used primarily for the use of religious or semi-religious purposes for the native culture from the land of Yoruba, located in Nigeria, as well as by worshippers of Santería in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and in the United States.
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Noun
1. a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad
(hypernym) Biu-Mandara

n. dressing gown, loose robe worn before dressing or when lounging around the house; wrapper, robe; overalls, smock; negligee, peignoir; mother

v. beat; whisk, whip; whir; hammer, hit or strike with a hammer; flap, move the wings or arms up and down; reconnoitre, scout an enemy's territory in order to gather useful information; defeat; (Andean) rinse out; (Southern Cone) inform against

n. bathrobe, smock, overall, wrapper

n. (Term used in Bahia, Brazil) small wooden drum

n. type of tree native of Brazil

v. beat, knock; whack, bash; batter, strike

v. sink, submerge, set, go bankrupt, break, burst up, cave, crash, decline, dip, fail, founder, go down, gravitate, hang, plunge, slide into, be swamped with, go under, wane, be on the wane