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"(literary) monarch"
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"sacred person; passed away person"
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"Datu"
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"Bima",
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"Datu",
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"Standard-Indonesian"
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},
{
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"Indonesian entries with incorrect language header",
"Indonesian lemmas",
"Indonesian nouns",
"Indonesian terms derived from Malay",
"Indonesian terms derived from Old Malay",
"Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian",
"Indonesian terms inherited from Malay",
"Indonesian terms inherited from Old Malay",
"Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 11 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Indonesian/atu",
"Rhymes:Indonesian/atu/2 syllables"
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"word": "kedatuan"
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{
"word": "datu banan"
},
{
"word": "datu petinggi"
},
{
"word": "datu rawan"
}
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"3": "datu"
},
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],
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"tags": [
"plural"
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"name": "id-noun"
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{
"word": "kedaton"
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"(literary) monarch"
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"person",
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"passed away",
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"Bima"
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"Datu",
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"(Bima) Datu"
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"Bima"
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}
],
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"tags": [
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},
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"ipa": "[ˈda.t̪u]",
"tags": [
"Standard-Indonesian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-atu"
}
],
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}
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"title": "datu",
"trace": ""
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Minangkabau",
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