dadah

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay dadah.

Noun

dadah (uncountable)

1. (Malaysia) recreational drugs

Anagrams

• Hadad, hadda

Iban

Etymology

From Malay dadah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdadea̯h]

Noun

dadah

1. drug

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdadah/ [ˈda.dah]
• Rhymes: -adah
• Syllabification: da‧dah

Etymology 1

Reduplication of dah (“bye”), from Dutch dag (“goodbye”), from Middle Dutch dach, from Old Dutch dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.

Interjection

dadah

1. (colloquial) goodbye

Alternative forms

• dah-dah (uncommon)

Derived terms

• berdadah-dadah

Etymology 2

From Malay dadah.

Noun

dadah (plural dadah-dadah)

1. synonym of narkoba (“recreational drug”)

Derived terms

• pendadah
• pendadahan

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Javanese ꦢꦢꦃ (dadah, “massage”), probably from Old Javanese dadah (“sacrifice, what one puts at stake (in order to help another”).

Noun

dadah (plural dadah-dadah)

1. (rare) massage

   Synonyms: pijat, pijit

   1. special massage for babies
   2. massage with traditional herbs to straighten veins and bone position (usually for babies and new mothers)

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Malay (Jambi) [Term?].

Adjective

dadah (comparative lebih dadah, superlative paling dadah)

1. scorching heat

Further reading

• “dadah”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dadah/
• Rhymes: -adah, -ah
• Hyphenation: da‧dah

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Noun

dadah (Jawi spelling داده, plural dadah-dadah or dadah²)

1. recreational drugs
2. medicine

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• pendadah (“storage for drugs”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)

Further reading

• "dadah" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017