adat

Borrowed from Malay adat, from Classical Persian عادت ('ādat), from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda, “habit, custom”), from the verb عَوْدَ (ʕawda, “to appertain, to be proper”).

adat (countable and uncountable, plural adats)

1. Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia. [from 18th c.]
   • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 254:

     [T]he early-nineteenth-century Padri movement […] was an accelerated programme of religious renewal in West Sumatra, an attempt to cleanse Islam of adat or local customary law and practices.

• TADA, a tad, data, ta-da, tada

adat

1. rule
2. custom, habit

Borrowed from Malay adat, from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda, “habit, custom”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.dɑt/

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• Hyphenation: adat

adat f or m (plural adats)

1. (countable) a Malay or Indonesian legal tradition
2. (uncountable) adat, traditional Malay law

   Synonym: adatrecht

• adatrecht

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒdɒt]

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• Hyphenation: adat
• Rhymes: -ɒt

From ad (“to give”) +‎ -at (resultative noun-forming suffix).[1] Compare the derivation of Latin datum (“that which is given”).

adat (plural adatok)

1. data

ad (“to give”) +‎ -at (causative suffix)

adat

1. (transitive) causative of ad: to have someone give or to have something given

(With verbal prefixes):

• (noun, “data”): adat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (verb, causative of “to give”): adat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• adat in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

From Malay adat, from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda, “habit, custom”), from the verb عَوْدَ (ʕawda, “to appurtain, to be proper”).

adat

1. custom (Frequent repetition of the same act)

• IPA^(key): /a.dat/

From Malay adat, from Classical Malay عادة (adat), from Persian عادت ('âdat), from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda, “habit, custom”), from the verb عَوْدَ (ʕawda, “to appurtain, to be proper”).

adat (first-person possessive adatku, second-person possessive adatmu, third-person possessive adatnya)

1. tradition

   menurut adat daerah ini

   according to the tradition of this region

2. custom, habit

   dia memiliki adat yang buruk

   he has a bad habit

3. law, rule

• (tradition): tradisi
• (custom, habit): kebiasaan
• (law, rule): peraturan, aturan

From Betawi adat or Javanese ꦔꦢꦠ꧀ (ngadat, “troublesome”, literally “habit”), cf. the same etymology as above.

adat (used in the form mengadat or ngadat)

1. (of vehicles, chiefly Jakarta) to stop to work, to have mechanical failure
2. (Betawi) to sulk, to cry

• mengadat

• “adat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

adat

1. Romanization of ꦲꦢꦠ꧀.

adat

1. habit, custom, character

From Classical Malay عادة (adat), from Persian عادت ('âdat), from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda, “habit, custom”), from the verb عَوْدَ (ʕawda, “to appurtain, to be proper”).

• IPA^(key): /adat/
• Rhymes: -adat, -dat, -at

adat (Jawi spelling عادت, plural adat-adat, informal 1st possessive adatku, 2nd possessive adatmu, 3rd possessive adatnya)

1. custom (Frequent repetition of the same act)

• Indonesian: adat
• → English: adat
• → Dutch: adat
• → Iban: adat
• → Western Cham: عادة (adat)

• “adat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

adat

1. Romanization of ᮃᮓᮒ᮪.

From the older adati, with word-final vowel deletion. Likely reinforced by Indonesian adat.

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈdat/

adat

1. Alternative form of adati

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

adat (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. custom

• عادة

From Malay adat, from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda).

adat

1. custom; tradition

   ني عادة راسم ݢيتا.

   Ni adat rasam gita.

   This is our tradition.

• Abdul Majid Hj. Yunos (2012) Kamus Cam–Melayu [Cham–Malay Dictionary] (in Malay), Bangi: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, →ISBN, page 1