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/

• Audio:

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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]

• Audio:

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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

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

(With verbal prefixes):

• (noun, “data”): adat in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (verb, causative of “to give”): adat in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• adat in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), 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)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈadat/ [ˈa.dat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -adat
• Syllabification: a‧dat
• Homophone: adad

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

adat (plural adat-adat)

1. tradition, custom, habit

   Synonym: tradisi

   Menurut adat daerah ini.

   According to the tradition of this region.

2. (uncommon) custom, habit (in general senses)

   Synonym: kebiasaan

   Dia memiliki adat yang buruk.

   He has a bad habit.

3. law, rule

   Synonyms: hukum, peraturan

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

adat

1. (of vehicles, chiefly Jakarta) to stop to work, to have mechanical failure

   Synonym: ngadat

2. (Betawi) to sulk, to cry

   Synonym: ngadat

• “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)

1. custom (Frequent repetition of the same act)

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

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

adat

1. tradition

• Zufri Hidayat et al. (2015). Kamus Bahasa Simalungun–Indonesia (2nd ed.). Medan: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara, p. 1.

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

adat (Sundanese script ᮃᮓᮒ᮪)

1. custom, habit

   Synonym: kabiasaan

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

Borrowed from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda).

• IPA^(key): [aːdat]
• Hyphenation: a‧dat

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

1. custom

• “adat” in Enedilim.com
• “adat” in Webonary.org

• 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