candu

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candu

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From Malay candu, from Hindi चंडू (caṇḍū), from Tamil சாந்து (cāntu, “mortar, plaster; powder”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: can‧du

candu (plural)

1. opium: a yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
2. opium poppy: Papaver somniferum, the species of plant from which opium and poppy seeds are extracted.
3. tar: a black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.

   Synonym: tar

4. (figurative) hobby

   Synonym: kegemaran

• tjandoe (1901–1947)

• apiun
• madat
• opium

• “candu” 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.

candu

1. Romanization of ꦕꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ.

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

candu

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From Tamil சாந்து (cāntu, “mortar, plaster; powder”).

candu (Jawi spelling چندو, plural candu-candu, informal 1st possessive canduku, 2nd possessive candumu, 3rd possessive candunya)

1. opium (drug from opium poppy)

• Indonesian: candu
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: चंडू (caṇḍū, “opium”)
• → Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ (candu, “opium”)
• → Tamil: சண்டு (caṇṭu, “opium”)

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

From Tamil சாந்து (cāntu, “mortar, plaster; powder”). Compare to Javanese ꦕꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ (candu, “opium, tar”).

candu

1. a kind of unguent, a kind of dye.

• "candu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

• cand' (apocopic, found before a vowel sound)

From Latin quandō (“when”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkandu/

candu

1. (interrogative) when

   Candu ischumenza l'ippittàcuru? ― When does the show start?

   • 1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XXIV, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎, London, translation of Il santo Vangelo di Gesù Cristo secondo Matteo (in Italian), verse 3, page 96:

     Dizzi, candu hani a accadì chilti cosi?

     [Dizzi, candu hani a accadì chisthi cosi?]

     Tell us, when will these things happen?

candu

1. when

   Veni candu voi ― Come whenever you want (literally, “Come when you want”)

   • 1863, chapter VIII, in Giovanni Spano, transl., Lu càntiggu de li càntigghi di Salamoni [Solomon's Song of songs]‎ (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Canticum canticorum, verse 10, page 19:

     Eju lu muru: e li me’ titti cumenti una torra, finza da candu denanz’a eddu sogg’eju comu chidda, ch’ha incuntraddu la pazi.

     [Éiu lu muru: e li me’ titti cumenti una torra, finza da candu denanz’a eddu sogg’éiu comu chidda, ch’ha incuntraddu la pazi.]

     I a wall, and my breasts as towers, since when in front of him I am as one who has found peace.

   • 1956, Salvator Ruju, “Pascha d’amòri [Easter of love]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 75:

     Lassa i la pruzissïoni
     a mamma tóia arrasendi.
     Candu lu Cristhu è passendi
     cresci la mé passïoni.

     Leave your mother praying in the procession. When Christ passes, my passion grows.

   • 1989 [1934], Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Paràuri [Words], adaptation of Parole by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 11:

     S’isciogliaristhia i lu matessi tempu
     lu muntoni trimendu di l’ammenti
     cument’e nèbi candu v’è lu sòri.

     At the same time, the dreadful heap of memories would melt like snow when the sun is there.

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes