sado

From Japanese 茶道 (sadō).

sado (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of chado (“Japanese tea ceremony”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsado]

sado

1. vocative singular of sada

Inherited from Latin sapidus (“delicious; wise”). Doublet of sâjo (“wise”).

sado (feminine sada, masculine plural sados, feminine plural sades) (ORB, broad)

1. delicious

• savoureux in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• sado in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sapĭdus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 11: S–Si, page 201

Apocopic form of sadiste

• IPA^(key): /sa.do/

sado (plural sados)

1. (colloquial) sadistic

sado m or f by sense (plural sados)

1. (colloquial) a sadist

• sado-maso

• “sado”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ados, dosa, soda

From French dos à dos (“back to back”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsad̪o]
• Hyphenation: sa‧do

sado (plural sado-sado)

1. (transport) gig, chair, chaise: a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage

   Synonyms: andong, bendi, bogi, cikar, dokar, delman, pedati, troika

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Standard Malay along with Sarawak Malay usage can be seen in sado.

• “sado” 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.

There are a number of theories as to how this term came to be:

• Blend of besar (“big, bulky”) +‎ bodoh (“very, really”)
• From sadur (“coated with something”), to refer to the muscles etc.
• Surname of early professional bodybuilder, Eugen Sandow
• Blend of besar +‎ ado (“very, really”), from a Sarawakian dialect

• (Baku, Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈsado/ [ˈsa.do]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: sa‧do

sado

1. (slang) bulky; people with a muscular appearance

   Synonyms: tegap, kuat, kekar, ketang, katang, ketak, ketak-ketak

   Abang sado ― Tough guy

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Indonesian usage can be seen in sado.

Possibly borrowed from Malay satu. Compare Bikol Central saro and Tboli sotu.

sadô

1. one

sado m (plural sados)

1. sadomasochism

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.do/

sado

1. (stative) to be complete, completed, finished

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

Borrowed from Arabic صَدَى (ṣadā, “echo”).

sado (plural sadolar)

1. sound, echo

Said by Voorhoeve to be from East Makian [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪a.d̪o/

sado

1. (polite) eye

   Synonym: afe (informal)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics