What is "bati"

Bati may refer to:

• Bati (Fiji), traditional Fijian warriors
  • The Fiji national rugby league team
• The town of Bati, Ethiopia.
• Bati (woreda)
• Bathi District, a district of Takeo Province, Cambodia
• The wattle-eye, or puffback flycatcher, a small, stout passerine bird of the African tropics;
• One of the Bamileke ethnic groups of Cameroon.
• Baati, a type of bread popular in western India
• Luca Bati, an Italian Baroque composer and music teacher
• Bati, Berber tribe to the East of Agadir and Casablanca, Morocco

Bati are the traditional warriors of the Fiji Islands the word itself loosely translated means soldier, bodyguard in Fijian. it is derived from the word meaning teeth or edge and In old Fiji two types of subjection were recognized called Qali and Bati, The Qali was a province or town subject to a Chief town and Bati denotes those which are not directly subject but less respected than the Qali, the Bati bordered an area subject to the Chief and provided him with a service, and from here derives the terms Mataqali and Bati.

Bati is now understood in Fijian Culture as the term for the island's traditional warrior class or caste. The Bati are traditionally among the strongest Fijians.

Each Fijian village has an intricate traditional infrastructure and a Chieftain will have a Bati Clan traditionally aligned with him.

Bati is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Oromia Zone, Bati is bordered on the south by Dawa Harewa, on the southeast by the Argobba special woreda, on the west and north by the Debub Wollo Zone, and on the east by the Afar Region. Towns in this woreda include its administrative center, the market town of Bati. The towns of Degan and Gerba were administratively part of Bati prior to the 2007 census, but were then transferred to Kalu woreda.

A notable landmark of this woreda is the Aneba forest. These 53 hectares of woodland are one of the few remaining stands of Afrocarpus gracilior, an indigenous tree locally known as Zegba, in Ethiopia. At least one tree in this woodland, known as Aliyaw, is 700 years old.