adat

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Definition of adat

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)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.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)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.”
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Alesis Digital Audio Tape: a kind of magnetic tape for storing soundtracks.

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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”).