ETYMOLOGI OF BATIK

Although the word's origin is Javanese, its etymology may be either from the Javanese amba ('to write') and titik ('dot' or 'point'), or constructed from a hypothetical Proto-Austronesian root *beC�k, meaning 'to tattoo' from the use of a needle in the process. The word is first recorded in English in the Encyclop�dia Britannica of 1880, in which it is spelled battik. It is attested in the Indonesian Archipelago during the Dutch colonial period in various forms: mbatek, mbatik, batek and batik