gandu

See also: Gandu

English

Etymology 1

From Hindustani گانڈو / गांडू (gāṇḍū).

Noun

gandu (plural gandus)

1. (India, vulgar, slang) An arsehole, an idiot.
   • 2011, Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement, page 358:

     She was almost nice, or trying to be. But that Khushaal. What a gandu! A real ass!

   • 2013, Manil Suri, The City of Devi, page 327:

     See—a gandu, nothing more, just like I said. Surely if it were a plot, they'd send a proper man.

   • 2019, Anand Ranganathan, Chitra Subramaniam, The Rat Eater:

     This Khushaal—you haven't seen his photographs, have you sir? The ugliest gandu in town...

   • 2020, Ranjay Chowdhury, Ram Khan: The Weird Wizard:

     That gandu has set men after me.

2. (India, Pakistan, vulgar, slang, offensive) Someone who takes the passive role in anal sex.
   • 1997, Hasan Mujtaba, Stephen O. Murray, Will Roscoe, Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature, page 31:

     He is less likely to be considered a gandu (since presumably he can satisfy himself carnally at will with his wife).

   • 2001, Trikone - Volumes 16-18, page 20:

     Calling Nasim a gandu and declaring a jehad against gay Muslims, he allegedly lunged at Nasim while two restaurant employees tried to restrain him.

   • 2011, Aatish Taseer, Noon: A Novel:

     'I see you've put up a picture of Maggu Mahapatra and that gandu prince, what's his name, Tuttu...'

   • 2012, Shobha De, Sethji:

     I am not here to disturb your honeymoon with that gandu-actor.

   • 2015, Stanley I. Thangaraj, Desi Hoop Dreams, page 187:

     Mustafa renarrativized his heterosexuality by playing gay as a way to control and test how much of a "Gandu" or "Chakka" Khushaal was.

Alternative forms

• goondu (Singapore Colloquial English)

Derived terms

• librandu (Indian politics)

Etymology 2

From Hausa gandū (“large farm”).

Noun

gandu (plural gandus)

1. (West Africa) A work agreement usually involving a married man and his adult sons who take on responsibility for the fieldwork of a farm on which they all live.
   • 1966, Dhara S. Gill, FAO Socio-economic Survey of Peasant Agriculture in Northern Nigeria, page 70:

     There are several variations in the organization of gandu in this area.

   • 2005, Steven Pierce, Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano:

     He described a number of other possibilities, for example, that in the event of a father's death, brothers might continue the gandu, with the senior brother taking the father's position as head.

   • 2014, Paul Clough, Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa:

     Hill found that in Dorayi, few married sons left gandu. Fathers were reluctant to release married sons from gandu and seldom granted them gayauna.

Hausa

Etymology

From a Songhay word for "land".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡán.dúː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɡán.dúː]

Noun

gandū m (plural gandā̀yē, possessed form gandun)

1. large farm, usually worked by a single family

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡandu/
• Hyphenation: gan‧du

Etymology 1

Noun

gandu (first-person possessive ganduku, second-person possessive gandumu, third-person possessive gandunya)

1. spadefish (Ephippus orbis).

Etymology 2

Noun

gandu (first-person possessive ganduku, second-person possessive gandumu, third-person possessive gandunya)

1. box bean (Entada phaseoloides).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Sundanese [Term?].

Classifier

gandu

1. (dialectal) classifier word for cylindrical objects

Further reading

• “gandu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Narungga

Noun

gandu

1. wallaby, in particular the rock wallaby

Ngadjuri

Noun

gandu

1. wallaby, in particular the rock wallaby