dandi

See also: Dandi

English

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• DIAND, add-in, didna, nidda

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

English dandybor.

Esperanto dando

Proto-Italic *-jezi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -īre

French -irbor.?

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Latin -īre

Spanish -irbor.?

Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.

Latin -īre

Old Galician-Portuguese -ir

Portuguese -irbor.?

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Latin -ire

Italian -irebor.?

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Latin -iō

Romanian -ibor.?

Esperanto -i

Esperanto dandi

From dando + -i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdandi/
• Rhymes: -andi
• Syllabification: 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

Further reading

• “dandi”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “dandi”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dandi

1. a small kendhang

Further reading

• “dandi”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Romanization

dandi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ダンディ

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdan.diː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdan.di]

Participle

dandī

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

Romanian

Alternative forms

• dandy

Etymology

Borrowed from English dandy.

Noun

dandi m (plural dandii)

1. dandy

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	dandi	dandiul	dandii	dandiii
genitive-dative	dandi	dandiului	dandii	dandiilor
vocative	dandiule		dandiilor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdandi/ [ˈd̪ãn̪.d̪i]
• Rhymes: -andi
• Syllabification: dan‧di

Noun

dandi m (plural dandis)

1. alternative form of dandy

Further reading

• “dandi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025