candu

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See also: cãndu, cándú, and cǎndú

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: can‧du

Noun

candu (plural candu-candu, first-person possessive canduku, second-person possessive candumu, third-person possessive candunya)

  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

Synonyms

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Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

candu

  1. Romanization of ꦕꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ.

Malay

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. opium (drug from opium poppy)

Descendants

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

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

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

Noun

candu

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

Further reading

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

Sassarese

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin quandō (“when”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

candu

  1. (interrogative) when
    Candu ischumenza l'ippittàcuru? ― When does the show start?

Conjunction

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.

References

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