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

• IPA^(key): [ˈdadah]
• Hyphenation: da‧dah

Etymology 1

From 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

Etymology 2

From Malay dadah.

Noun

dadah (first-person possessive dadahku, second-person possessive dadahmu, third-person possessive dadahnya)

1. (rare) recreational drugs

Derived terms

• pendadah
• pendadahan

 

Further reading

• “dadah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From the acronym "Dangerous Drugs and Hashish", coined in the early 1980s.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Malaysia):

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Noun

dadah (Jawi spelling داده, plural dadah-dadah, informal 1st possessive dadahku, 2nd possessive dadahmu, 3rd possessive dadahnya)

1. recreational drugs

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 | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.