Balatik

• Batik

From balatik, due to its resemblance with the constellation Orion, particularly Orion's Belt and Orion's Sword.

• IPA^(key): /baˈlatik/, [bʌˈl̪a.t̪ɪk]
• Hyphenation: Ba‧la‧tik

Balatik

1. (astronomy) Orion

• Balatic — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

From balatik (“spring-set spear trap”), due to its resemblance with the constellation Orion, particularly the Orion's Belt and Orion's Sword. Compare Bikol Central Balatik, Cebuano Balatik, Hiligaynon Balatik, Karaga Mandaya Bayatik, Western Bukidnon Manobo Belatik, Central Subanen Belatik, Central Sama Batik, and Malay Belantik.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈlatik/ [bɐˈla.tɪk]
• Rhymes: -atik
• Syllabification: Ba‧la‧tik

Balatik (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜆᜒᜃ᜔)

1. (astronomy) Orion (particularly around the region of the Orion's Belt that looks like a balatik)
2. (astronomy) Sagittarius

   Synonyms: Sahitaryo, Mamamana

• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, page 29: “BALATIC. pp. ballestón, las estrellas llamadas tres Marías.”
• Dante L. Ambrosio (2005) “BALATIK: Katutubong Bituin ng mga Pilipino”, in Philippine Social Sciences Review‎, volume 57, Quezon City: University of the Philippines-Diliman College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, pages 1-27