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Batu may refer to:
Batu were a British music group strongly influenced by Brazilian music.
Formed in early 1992, in Brighton, England and disbanded in late 1994, this group featured the talents of Bebeto De Souza, a native of São Paulo, Brazil, as well as the vocals of Sharon Scott.
Full members included Chris Franck, Carl Smith, Kevin Alexander, Sharon Scott, Franc O'Shea, Tristan Banks, Bebeto De Souza, Oli Savill, and Patrick Forge. Some of the artists went on to form another Brazilian outfit called Da Lata, spearheaded by Forge and Franck and featuring the vocal talents of Lilliana Chachian and Nina Miranda. However, before this, many of them contributed to and were a part of several other projects throughout the 1990s.
Batu is a common masculine Central Asian name.
In Mongolian, "Batu" means firm/stable. While the name is spelled Batu in Mongol Script , the form Bat is used in Mongol Cyrillic.
In Turkish, "Batu" means "Prevailing", and/or "Preponderant". It also connotes "The West" since "Batu" resembles the word "Batı" which means "west" in Turkish.
Batu is a federal constituency in the Federal Territories, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974, from 1986 to present.
The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
Usage examples of "batu".
Along with his commander, a sorcerer, and two of his peers, Batu was studying the enemy in a magic scrying basin.
At last, after twenty years of chasing down bands of nomad raiders, Batu knew he was about to fight a real war.
Like the horseman, Batu had dark eyes set wide over broad cheeks, a flat nose with flaring nostrils, and a powerful build.
On the other hand, Batu was only thirty-eight, and, though he was also a first-degree general, he commanded an army of only five thousand men.
As Batu and the others watched, a subdued and distant thunder rolled out of the scrying basin.
Still, Batu found it disturbing that any of his men fell, for he did not know a single Shou horseman who could boast of hitting such a distant target from a galloping mount.
Through the scrying basin, Batu heard the screams of dying men and the terrified shrieks of wounded horses.
When his officers showed the proper restraint and did not pursue, Batu breathed a sigh of relief.
The number of casualties unsettled Batu, for the heavy losses reflected too well on the accuracy of the enemy bowmen.
The Minister of War disagreed with Batu, and the older generals knew it would not be prudent to contradict their superior.
As the two men looked away, Batu recognized their caution and realized that he could expect no help from them.
Even if Batu did not perish during the slaughter, the stigma of losing an entire army would destroy his career.
In that respect, Batu considered himself no different from any other soldier, and if Kwan ordered him to meet the enemy naked and alone, he would be obliged to do so.
Fortunately, if all Kwan wanted was to be rid of him, Batu thought that he could salvage a respectable death from his predicament.
For the first time since Batu had begun his protest, Kwan looked directly at him.