adat

Definitions

1. Initialism of Alesis Digital Audio Tape: a kind of magnetic tape for storing soundtracks.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[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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