dadah

Borrowed from Malay dadah.

dadah (uncountable)

1. (Malaysia) recreational drugs

• Hadad, hadda

From Malay dadah.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdadea̯h]

dadah

1. drug

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

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

dadah

1. (colloquial) goodbye

• dah-dah (uncommon)

From Malay dadah.

dadah (plural dadah-dadah)

1. synonym of narkoba (“recreational drug”)

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

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)

Borrowed from Malay (Jambi) [Term?].

dadah (comparative lebih dadah, superlative paling dadah)

1. scorching heat

• “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.

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

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dadah (Jawi spelling داده, plural dadah-dadah)

1. recreational drugs
2. medicine

• “dadah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.