bata
Portuguese, noun
bata is spelled B-A-T-A (4 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,870th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bata is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “white coat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of bater. With an accent, batá is a different word: “bata drum”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “veste longa utilizada por alguns profissionais (médicos, professores, padres, etc.)”.
What does bata mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewhite coat
- 2
femininealternative form of boitatá
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
masculinebata drum
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. veste longa utilizada por alguns profissionais (médicos, professores, padres, etc.) 2. roupão de mulher, abotoado em toda sua frente 3. vestido largo de criança ou mulher 4. blusa adotada pela moda hippie
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bata
- batas plural
- batás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bata
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bata in Portuguese?
bata appears 7.8 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).