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adat

adat noun: traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.

Noun (1)

adat (countable and uncountable, plural adats)

  1. Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.
    • [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.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 254

Noun (2) capitalized: ADAT

ADAT (plural ADATs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Alesis Digital Audio Tape: a kind of magnetic tape for storing soundtracks.

Forms of adat

pluraladats
pluralADATs

Origin of 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”).

Questions about adat

What does adat mean?
Adat means traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.
What part of speech is adat?
Adat is a noun.
What is the plural of adat?
The plural of adat is adats.

Words near adat in the dictionary

  1. ADARs
  2. Adarsh
  3. adarticulation
  4. adarticulations
  5. ADAS
  6. adat
  7. adatanserin
  8. adati
  9. adatis
  10. adatom
  11. adatomic

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