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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay datuk, probably from Old Malay datūa (“regent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdatʊk̚/
- Hyphenation: da‧tuk
Noun
datuk (first-person possessive datukku, second-person possessive datukmu, third-person possessive datuknya)
- grandfather
- Synonyms: aki, kakek
- elder
- title for elder
- (dialect, Minangkabau) traditional chief.
- Synonyms: kepala adat, penghulu adat
- (dialect, Minangkabau) genie, jinn
- Synonyms: jin, toapekong
- (dialect, obsolete) synonym of harimau (“tiger”)
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Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu, from Proto-Austronesian *datu. Doublet of datu, datung, and ratu.
Pronunciation
Noun
datuk (Jawi spelling داتوق, plural datuk-datuk, informal 1st possessive datukku, 2nd possessive datukmu, 3rd possessive datuknya)
- A father of someone's parent; a grandfather.
- A form of address to one's grandfather or someone of a similar age.
- A form of address to someone who possesses the title of Datuk.
- (archaic) A form of address to a police officer or by a police officer to their superior.
- A type of ghost.
- Synonyms: puaka, penunggu
- (Chinese folk religion) An idol.
- Synonyms: berhala, topekong, dewa
- (informal) A form of address to tigers.
- Datuk harimau ― Mr tiger
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Further reading
- “datuk” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*datu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI