dandi
See also: Dandi
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Hindi [Term?].
Noun
dandi (plural dandis)
- (India) A boatman; an oarsman.
- 1974, Indian Factories & Labour Reports, volume 28, India Supreme Court, page 6:
- In the course of unloading of the goods from a steamer, a dandi working on the boat enganged himself in the rope which was thrown from the steamer for the purposes of tying the boat and suffered injury.
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Noun
dandi (plural dandis)
- (India) A type of palanquin.
- 1863, Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia:
- In cases of short temporary illness a dandi may occasionally be very useful. Any strong pole, with a cloth sufficiently large, elliptically folded, and solidly attached to it in a longitudinal form, may at once be converted into a dandi.
- 1912, Arthur Clinton Boggess, First Days in India, page 124:
- A dandi is a kind of chair and foot-rest, so mounted on a framework of wood and iron rods that it can be carried by one man when it is empty, and by four men at a time when it has a passenger.
- 2015, Attia Hosain, Distant Traveller: New and Selected Fiction:
- A rickshaw would move off, a dandi would swing by, and the rest would once again wait for the cry, “Dandi!”, “Dandi!”. Deoli and his companions were left to wait each time in the race and the rush.
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Anagrams
- DIAND, add-in, didna, nidda
Esperanto
Etymology
From dando + -i.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdandi]
- Rhymes: -andi
- Hyphenation: dan‧di
Verb
dandi (present dandas, past dandis, future dandos, conditional dandus, volitive dandu)
- (intransitive) to swagger, show off
Conjugation
Conjugation of dandi
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Latin
Participle
dandī
- inflection of dandus:
- nominative/vocative masculine plural
- genitive masculine/neuter singular
Romanian
Alternative forms
- dandy
Etymology
From English dandy.
Noun
dandi m (uncountable)
- dandy
Declension
declension of dandi (singular only)
singular | ||
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m gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) dandi | dandiul |
genitive/dative | (unui) dandi | dandiului |
vocative | dandiule |
Spanish
Noun
dandi m (plural dandis)
- Alternative form of dandy
Further reading
- “dandi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014