dandi

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi .

Noun

dandi (plural dandis)

1. (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.

Etymology 2

Noun

dandi (plural dandis)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• DIAND, add-in, didna, nidda

Esperanto

Etymology

From dando +‎ -i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -andi
• Hyphenation: dan‧di

Verb

dandi (present dandas, past dandis, future dandos, conditional dandus, volitive dandu)

1. (intransitive) to swagger, show off

Conjugation

Conjugation of dandi present past future singular plural singular plural singular plural tense dandas dandis dandos active participle dandanta dandantaj dandinta dandintaj dandonta dandontaj acc. dandantan dandantajn dandintan dandintajn dandontan dandontajn nominal active participle dandanto dandantoj dandinto dandintoj dandonto dandontoj acc. dandanton dandantojn dandinton dandintojn dandonton dandontojn adverbial active participle dandante dandinte dandonte infinitive dandi imperative dandu conditional dandus

Japanese

Romanization

dandi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ダンディ

Latin

Participle

dandī

1. inflection of dandus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Romanian

Alternative forms

• dandy

Etymology

Borrowed from English dandy.

Noun

dandi m (uncountable)

1. dandy

Declension

Spanish

Noun

dandi m (plural dandis)

1. Alternative form of dandy

Further reading

• “dandi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014