batiken
German, verb
batiken is spelled B-A-T-I-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written German, the 401,709th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Batiken is a German verb meaning “to batik” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Batiken is a different word: “gerund of batiken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(insbesondere Textilien) mithilfe von Wachs mit einem Muster versehen und dann färben”.
What does batiken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to batik
noun
- 1
neutergerund of batiken
noun
- 1
plural of Batik
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (insbesondere Textilien) mithilfe von Wachs mit einem Muster versehen und dann färben
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of batiken
- batikt present singular third-person
- batikte past
- gebatikt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- batikend participle present
- batike first-person indicative present
- batikst indicative present second-person
- batikest second-person singular subjunctive
- batiket plural second-person subjunctive
- batikten first-person indicative plural
- batiktest indicative preterite second-person
- batiktet indicative plural preterite
- batik imperative second-person singular
- habe gebatikt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebatikt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- batik! imperative singular
- batike! imperative singular
- batikt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to batiken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is batiken in German?
batiken appears about once in every 45 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).