different between fielders vs batman

English

Noun

fielders

1. plural of fielder

Anagrams

• Fiedlers, Friedels, defilers, drelfies

English

Etymology 1

From bat (“packsaddle”) +? man. The element bat is from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum, possibly from Ancient Greek ????????? (bastázein, “to bear, carry, lift”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bætm?n/
• Hyphenation: bat?man

Noun

batman (plural batmen)

1. (military) A servant or valet to a military officer.
2. (by extension, informal) A personal assistant or supporter.

Translations

Verb

batman (third-person singular simple present batmans, present participle batmanning, simple past and past participle batmanned)

1. To act as a batman, wait on an officer.

See also

• batter
• batty man

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (batman). Cognate with Chagatai [script needed] (b?tm?n).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bat?man/
• Hyphenation: bat?man

Noun

batman (plural batmans)

1. (Turkish units of measure) A unit of weight established in 1931 equal to 10 kg.
2. (historical units of measure) A Turkish unit of weight varying by location, time, and item from 2–8 okas (about 2.5–10 kg).
   • 1583 July 20, J. Newbery, letter in Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, p. 209:

     Euery bateman [in Bagdad] maketh 7. pound and 5. ounces English waight.

   • 1614, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimage, p. 544:

     A Batman is fiue and fiftie pound weight English.

   • 1753, G. Thompson & al. in Jonas Hanway's Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea, Vol. I, p. 351:

     Their weights [in Khiva] are the great batman equal to 18 lb. russian, and the lesser batman 9¼.

   • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXX, s.v. "Rottolo":

     At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois.

   • 1900, William B. Dick, Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes, p. 530:

     6107. Turkish Weights. The Turkish Chequi is 11? ounces avoirdupois...
     1 Batman = 6 Okas
     1 Oka = 4 Chequi

Synonyms

• man (???) (Persian contexts); maund (Indian contexts)

Meronyms

• (subdivisions): dirhem or dram; cheki; rottol or rotl; oka
• (superdivisions): kantar or quintal; cheki

Translations

References

Citations

Further reading

• "batman" in the Ottoman Turkish Dictionary
• "batman, n.¹", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Etymology 3

In reference to the superhero Batman.

Verb

batman (third-person singular simple present batmans, present participle batmanning, simple past and past participle batmanned)

1. (slang, mountaineering) To climb up or down a rope free hand (i.e. as Batman does).

Anagrams

• Bantam, bantam

Cebuano

Etymology

Its shape being likened to Batman's chest logo.

Noun

batman

1. A spiny orb-weaver; a common name of the spiders in the genus Gasteracantha.

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (batman), from Proto-Turkic *batm?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?tm?n/

Noun

batman (definite accusative batman?)

1. (historical) A unit of weight formerly used in the Ottoman period.