Odatda

Odatda is a transliteration variant sometimes encountered in Uzbek-language texts written in Latin script. In standard Uzbek orthography the adverb meaning “usually” or “normally” is odatda. The spelling odatda with a doubled consonant is generally considered a misspelling, a transliteration artifact, or a nonstandard variant. The etymology traces to odat, meaning habit or custom, with the locative suffix da forming an adverb meaning “in a habitual way” or “in general.”

In usage, odatda is used to indicate typical or expected behavior: Odatda odamlar ertalab chiqishadi. However, sentences with odatda as odatda (with double d) would be read as a nonstandard form and may appear in informal writing, typographic errors, or when copying texts from Cyrillic sources where одатда might be transliterated as odatda.

The term odatda has no separate meaning beyond being a spelling variant; it is not a distinct lexical entry in standard Uzbek dictionaries, and it is not used as a proper noun.

See also: odatda, odat, odatiy.