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

Esperanto

Etymology

From dando +‎ -i.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdandi/
  • 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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Noun

dandi

  1. a small kendhang

Further reading

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English dandy.

Noun

dandi m (uncountable)

  1. dandy

Declension

Declension of dandi
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative dandi dandiul
genitive-dative dandi dandiului
vocative dandiule

Spanish

Noun

dandi m (plural dandis)

  1. alternative form of dandy

Further reading

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