datu
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of datu
First recorded in 1925–30; from Tagalog datu, dato “landowner, head of a clan or tribe”; akin to dato ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Six people were missing in Datu Blah Sinsuat and 10 others in Upi, Sinarimbo said.
From Washington Times • Oct. 28, 2022
Five people were missing in Datu Blah Sinsuat, according to the town’s mayor, Marshall Sinsuat.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022
The ReCAAP report details an incident off the coast of Lahad Datu, Malaysia, in January.
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2020
Then, Datu Ali, a rebel leader, became the subject of a two-year manhunt — not unlike the ones that finally killed al-Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden and ISIS’s Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2019
This they had drawn up in writing, and desired the English and Datu Bandar to sign.
From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette
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