batto

Animals in Japanese / Names List / Starting with ha は

Translation

batto means "Bat" in English.
It's a katakanization, a loan-word.

The "bat" you hit balls with is called batto バット, while the animal is called koumori コウモリ.

batto is normally written with katakana, as バット.
batto written with hiragana is ばっと.

batto does not have kanji.

Romaji	ba	tto
Katakana	バ	ッ	ト
Hiragana	ば	っ	と

Orthography Notes

ット contains a small tsu ッ which makes the consonant of the syllable longer.

What batto looks like. — Photo

batto バット — batto バット

Synonyms

koumori コウモリ.

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Further Reading

Wikipedia: コウモリ (Bat)