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Example sentences for "adat"

Lexicographically close words:
adaption; adaptive; adaptiveness; adapts; adas; adayes; add; addax; adde; added
  1. Then count five shops on the right-hand side and the sixth shop is that of Abu al-Sa'adat the Jew, the Caliph's Shroff.

  2. It is said, indeed, that each alteration has been for the worse, and that now any chief who introduces anything of his own will, justifies it as "adat Malayu.

  3. Hearing and obeying," answered Abu al-Sa'adat and brought him the hundred suits, each with its ornaments wrapped up within it.

  4. Abu al-Sa'adat replied, "That wot I not, but my master hath commanded me and I cannot cross whoso hath compassed the enchanted ring.

  5. It is common however when they are upon good terms to release him on the payment of one jujur, or at most with the addition of an adat of fifty dollars.

  6. They speak of him however with respect, and in any moderate requisition that does not affect their adat or customs they are ready enough to aid him (tolong, as they express it), but rather as matter of favour than acknowledged obligation.

  7. A man married by ambel-anak may redeem himself and family on payment of the jujur and adat of a virgin before-mentioned.

  8. If a younger sister be first married, the husband pays six dollars, adat pelalu, for passing over the elder.

  9. The bangun of private persons is to be paid to their families; deducting the adat ulasan of ten per cent to the pambarabs and proattins.

  10. The adat paid to the girl's friends has usually been twelve dollars.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.