batta (countable and uncountable, plural battas)
(India, dated) An exchange rate.
(India, dated) The discount on uncurrent coins.
(India, dated) Extra pay; especially an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
• Tha Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China, and Australasia (volume 28)
• at bat, at-bat
Source: Wiktionary
Bat"ta, n. Etym: [Prob. through Pg. for Canarese bhatta rice in the husk.]
Definition: Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India. Whitworth.
Bat"ta, n. Etym: [Hind. ba.]
Definition: Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins. [India]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
