bato

Cebuano

noun
Definitions
  • a stone; a pebble, rock, or boulder
  • a gem
  • a calculus in the kidney; a kidney stone
  • a gallstone
  • (metonym) the kidney
  • (bingo) a token, a pebble or seed used to mark a bingo card.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu inherited from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

Origin

Proto-Austronesian

*batu

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