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padam

Pronunciation: /padam/

“padam” is a Malay word. Its 3 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. extinguished; put out; off (of fire, flames, lights, or electricity).

verb

  1. to extinguish; to turn off (to put out a fire or switch off a light).
  2. to erase; to delete; to wipe out (to remove writing, data, or memory).

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padəm (“to extinguish, douse a fire”).

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