# datu
## Balinese
### Romanization

datu
* Romanization of ᬤᬢᬸ

## Basque
### Etymology

From Spanish dato.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /datu/, [d̪a.t̪u]

### Noun

datu inan
* data

#### Derived terms

* datu-banku
* datu-base (“database”)

### Further reading

* “datu”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “datu”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Cebuano
### Alternative forms

* dato

### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *datu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu (“lineage priest”). Uncertain. Related to Malay datuk, and Fijian ratu. The sense of being wealthy stemmed from the datus being prosperous members of pre-Hispanic societies.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Cebuano) IPA: /ˈdaːtuʔ/

### Noun

datu
* (chiefly historical) a datu
* a wealthy person

### Adjective

datu
* wealthy

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdatu/

### Verb

datu
* imperative of dati

## Higaonon
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *datu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu (“lineage priest”).

### Noun

datu
* king

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay datu, from Old Malay dātu (“king”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu (“lineage priest”). Doublet of datuk and ratu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdatu/
* Hyphenation: da‧tu

### Noun

datu (plural datu-datu)
* (literary) monarch
    Synonyms: raja (“king”), ratu (“queen”)
* (Minangkabau) shaman, medicine man
    Synonym: dukun
* sacred person; passed away person
* (Bima) Datu

#### Derived terms

* kedatuan
* datu banan
* datu petinggi
* datu rawan

#### Related terms

* datuk
* kedaton
* ratu

### Further reading

* “datu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Noun

datū
* ablative singular of datus

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* datuk, datung

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu. Cognate to Javanese ꦫꦠꦸ (ratu).
First attested in the Kota Kapur inscription, 686 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (dātu, “king”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /datu/
* Rhymes: -atu, -tu, -u

### Noun

datu (Jawi spelling داتو, plural datu-datu, informal 1st possessive datuku, 2nd possessive datumu, 3rd possessive datunya)
* king (a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation)
    Synonym: raja

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* kedatuan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: datu

### Further reading

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

## Palawan Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu.

### Noun

datu
* (religion) priest, traditional medicine practitioner

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* dato

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu. Compare with Fijian ratu, Javanese ꦫꦠꦸ (ratu), and Malay datu. Doublet of dato.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /ˈdatu/ [ˈd̪aː.t̪ʊ]
*** Rhymes: -atu
** IPA: /ˈdatuʔ/ [ˈd̪aː.t̪ʊʔ] (obsolete)
* Syllabification: da‧tu

### Noun

datu (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜆᜓ) (historical, politics)
* datu (title denoting a ruler of various pre-colonial and modern indigenous peoples of the Philippines)

#### Derived terms

* datuin
* magdatu
* magpadatu
* pagdatuan
* papagdatuin
* pinagdatuan

#### Related terms

* Datu

#### See also

* kabesa de barangay

### Further reading

* “datu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018