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adats

adats is the plural of adat.

Meaning of adat

Noun

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 capitalized: ADATs

ADATs

  1. (plural) plural of ADAT

Questions about adats

What is adats the plural of?
Adats is the plural of adat.
What part of speech is adats?
Adats is a noun.

Words near adats in the dictionary

  1. adati
  2. adatis
  3. adatom
  4. adatomic
  5. adatoms
  6. adats
  7. adaunt
  8. adaunted
  9. adaunting
  10. adaunts
  11. adaw

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adats (page history and authors); ADATs (page history and authors); adat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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