English Explanatory Dictionary

adat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.
noun
  1. Initialism of Alesis Digital Audio Tape: a kind of magnetic tape for storing soundtracks.

Word forms

adat adats

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”).

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