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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]dandi (plural dandis)
- (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.
Anagrams
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[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Verb
[edit]dandi (present dandas, past dandis, future dandos, conditional dandus, volitive dandu)
- (intransitive) to swagger, show off
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of dandi
present | past | future | |||||
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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 |
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Indonesian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈdandi/ [ˈdan.di]
- Rhymes: -andi
- Syllabification: dan‧di
Noun
[edit]dandi
- a small kendhang
Further reading
[edit]- “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.
Japanese
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[edit]dandi
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]dandī
Romanian
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]dandi m (uncountable)
Declension
[edit] declension of dandi (singular only)
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]dandi m (plural dandis)
- Alternative form of dandy
Further reading
[edit]- “dandi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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