different between dadah vs dawah

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay dadah.

Noun

dadah (uncountable)

1. (Malaysia) recreational drugs

Anagrams

• Hadad, hadda

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dadah]
• 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

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

Further reading

• “dadah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. recreational drugs

Derived terms

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (da?wa, “call to action; invitation”).

Noun

dawah (uncountable)

1. (Islam) Islamic proselytism, particularly through preaching

Hypernyms

• proselytism

Anagrams

• Awadh