Batak
noun
a member of a diverse group of Indigenous peoples chiefly inhabiting north-central Sumatra.
Bataks
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pluralof Batak.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Karo Bataks even affirm that of a man’s two souls it is the true soul that lives with the placenta under the house; that is the soul, they say, which begets children.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
Such a people are the Bataks of Sumatra.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
The Bataks of Sumatra offer either a red horse or a buffalo as a public sacrifice to purify the land and obtain the favour of the gods.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
Wilken720 says of the Bataks that a slave, by diligence and thrift, can always buy himself.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
The Bataks of Sumatra have a ceremony which they call “making the curse to fly away.”
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
