Battak

English Noun s * en Batak. en 1869 Alfred Russel Wallace The Malay Archipelago Macmillan and Co. II London 441 The savage Malays are the Dyaks of Borneo; the Battaks and other wild tribes of Sumatra; the Jakuns of the Malay Peninsula; the aborigines of Northern Celebes, of the Sula island, and of part of Bouru. en 1912 J.A. MacCulloch James Hastings Encyclopædia or Religion and Ethics Fairy T. & T. Clarke New York V 686 1 The Battaks of Sumatra believe in mountain-dwarfs hostile to encroaching mortals, who carry off men or women, or have amours with handsome mortals. Proper noun en Batak.