Bats

See also: bats, bâts, and båts

English

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Bats

1. A Northeast Caucasian language of the Nakh family, spoken in Georgia.

Synonyms

• Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, Batsi, Tsova-Tush; Tush, Mosok (obsolete)

Translations

language

• Armenian: բաց (hy) (bacʻ), բացբերեն (bacʻberen), թուշերեն (tʻušeren)
• Bats: ბაცბაჼმოტ (bacbãmoṭ)
• Breton: Batseg
• Bulgarian: бацбийски (bacbijski)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: bacba lingvo
• Finnish: batsi
• French: Bats (fr)
• Georgian: ბაცბური ენა (bacburi ena), წოვათუშური ენა (c̣ovatušuri ena)
• German: Batsische n
• Hebrew: באצבית
• Ingush: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: bats
• Laz: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: батски (batski)
• Mingrelian: ბაცბური ნინა (bacburi nina)
• Norwegian: batsisk
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: bacbijski (pl)
• Portuguese: bats (pt) m
• Russian: бацбийский (ru) (bacbijskij), цо́ва-тушинский (cóva-tušinskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: bacbijski (sh)
• Svan: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ภาษาบัตส์ (paasăa bàt)
• Turkish: batsça
• Ukrainian: бацбійська (bacbijsʹka)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Bats terms
• Bats language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ISO 639-3 code bbl (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Bats, bbl ⁠

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Bats

1. A commune in Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

Translations

a commune in France

• Basque: Vaths
• Catalan: Vaths
• Dutch: Bats (nl)
• French: Bats (fr)
• Italian: Bats
• Occitan: Vaths
• Piedmontese: Bats
• Portuguese: Bats (pt)
• Romanian: Bats
• Spanish: Bats

Etymology 3

From Bat(man) +‎ -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Proper noun

Bats

1. A nickname for Batman.
   • 2014 July 23, Abraham Riesman, “Dear Hollywood: Stop Using Frank Miller’s Batman Stories As Source Material”, in Vulture‎^[1]:

     The Dark Knight Returns, published in four installments in 1986, is an extremely grim vision of a near-future Batman in a crime-ridden Gotham (reminiscent of Death Wish–era New York) that went to seed after Bats hung up the cape and cowl years prior.

Derived terms

• Batsy
• Dickbats

See also

• Supes

Anagrams

• ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, BTAS, Bast, SATB, STAB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bast, stab, tabs