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dadu

Pronunciation: /ˈdadu/

“dadu” is an Indonesian word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. die, a regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance
  2. cube
  3. rice planting season (around October)

adjective

  1. pink

Etymology

From Malay dadu (“die”), from Portuguese dado (“die”), from Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Doublet of data and datum.

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