datu

datu (plural datus)

1. An indigenous Malay or Filipino chief.

• IPA^(key): /da.tu/
• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: da‧tu

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu. Doublet of ratu.

datu (Balinese script ᬤᬢᬸ)

1. king
2. queen

Borrowed from Old Javanese dhātu (“constituent, ingredient; element”), from Sanskrit धातु (dhātu).

datu (Balinese script ᬥᬵᬢᬸ)

1. element
2. metal

• “datu” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

From Spanish dato.

• IPA^(key): /datu/ [d̪a.t̪u]

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• Rhymes: -atu, -u
• Hyphenation: da‧tu

datu inan

1. data

• “datu”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “datu”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• dato

From Proto-Philippine *datu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu (“lineage priest”). Uncertain. Related to Malay datuk, and Fijian ratu. The sense of being wealthy stemmed from the datus being prosperous members of pre-Hispanic societies.

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈdaːtuʔ/

datu

1. (chiefly historical) a datu
2. a wealthy person

datu

1. wealthy

• IPA^(key): /ˈdatu/

datu

1. imperative of dati

From Proto-Philippine *datu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu (“lineage priest”).

datu

1. king

From Malay datu, from Old Malay dātu (“king”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu (“lineage priest”). Doublet of datuk and ratu.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdatu/ [ˈda.t̪u]
• Rhymes: -atu
• Syllabification: da‧tu

datu (plural datu-datu)

1. (literary) monarch

   Synonyms: raja (“king”), ratu (“queen”)

2. (Minangkabau) shaman, medicine man

   Synonym: dukun

3. sacred person; passed away person
4. (Bima) Datu

• “datu” 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.

datū

1. ablative singular of datus

• datuk, datung

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu. Cognate to Javanese ꦫꦠꦸ (ratu).

First attested in the Kota Kapur inscription, 686 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (dātu, “king”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdatu/ [ˈda.t̪u]
• Rhymes: -atu, -tu, -u

datu (Jawi spelling داتو, plural datu-datu)

1. king (a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation)

   Synonym: raja

• Indonesian: datu

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu.

datu

1. (religion) priest, traditional medicine practitioner

• dato

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu. Compare with Fijian ratu, Javanese ꦫꦠꦸ (ratu), and Malay datu. Doublet of dato.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈdatu/ [ˈd̪aː.t̪ʊ]
    • Rhymes: -atu
  • IPA^(key): /ˈdatuʔ/ [ˈd̪aː.t̪ʊʔ] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: da‧tu

datu (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜆᜓ) (historical, politics)

1. datu (title denoting a ruler of various pre-colonial and modern indigenous peoples of the Philippines)

• kabesa de barangay

• “datu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018