adat

English

Etymology

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”).

Noun

adat (countable and uncountable, plural adats)

1. Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.
   • 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.

Anagrams

• TADA, a tad, data, ta-da, tada

Ambonese Malay

Lemma

adat

1. rule
2. custom, habit

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.dɑt/

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• Hyphenation: adat

Noun

adat f or m (plural adats)

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

   Synonym: adatrecht

Derived terms

• adatrecht

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

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• Hyphenation: adat
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

adat (plural adatok)

1. data

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Verb

adat

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (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)

Iban

Etymology

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

Noun

adat

1. custom (Frequent repetition of the same act)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dat/

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

Derived terms

• mengadat

References

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

Javanese

Romanization

adat

1. Romanization of ꦲꦢꦠ꧀.

Kalasha

Noun

adat

1. habit, custom, character

Malay

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Sundanese

Romanization

adat

1. Romanization of ᮃᮓᮒ᮪.

Ternate

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈdat/

Noun

adat

1. Alternative form of adati

References

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

Turkmen

Noun

adat (definite accusative , plural )

1. custom

Declension

Western Cham

Alternative forms

• عادة

Etymology

From Malay adat, from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda).

Noun

adat

1. custom; tradition

   ني عادة راسم ݢيتا.

   Ni adat rasam gita.

   This is our tradition.

References

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