dandi

dandi (plural dandis)

1. (India) Alternative form of dandy, a boatman, a Shaiva mendicant, a basic sedan chair.
   • 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.

   • 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.

   • 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.

• DIAND, add-in, didna, nidda

From dando +‎ -i.

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

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

1. (intransitive) to swagger, show off

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdandi/
• Rhymes: -andi
• Syllabification: dan‧di

dandi

1. a small kendhang

• “dandi” 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.

dandi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ダンディ

dandī

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

• dandy

Borrowed from English dandy.

dandi m (uncountable)

1. dandy

dandi m (plural dandis)

1. Alternative form of dandy

• “dandi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28