Word
バット
Meaning in Englishbat, vat
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What it means
What does バット mean? It designates a sporting implement used to hit a pitched ball, most commonly the baseball bat, and is used in everyday conversation and sports contexts to refer to that equipment.
Main meanings
- 1. Baseball bat, the wooden or metal club used to hit pitched balls in baseball and related sports.
How to use it
Used primarily in sports contexts to denote the equipment; neutral tone, common in casual conversation, sports journalism, and education; typical collocations include バットを振る and バットで打つ.
Variants and close terms
- 木製バット — mokusei batto (wooden baseball bat)
- 金属バット — kinzoku batto (metal baseball bat)
- 棒 — bou (generic stick, often used as a non-sport synonym)
Etymology
バット is the katakana rendering of the English bat, with the small っ indicating consonant doubling, producing batto in Japanese.
Origin
Meiji era adoption: baseball was introduced from the United States, and バット became the standard term for the baseball bat.
Word class
Noun (外来語)