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gandu

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Hindustani گانڈو / गांडू (gāṇḍū).

Noun

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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
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  • goondu (Singapore Colloquial English)
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Hausa gandū (large farm).

Noun

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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

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Etymology

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From a Songhay word for "land".

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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gandū m (plural gandā̀yē, possessed form gandun)

  1. large farm, usually worked by a single family

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Noun

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gandu (uncountable)

  1. spadefish (Ephippus orbis).

Etymology 2

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Noun

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gandu (uncountable)

  1. box bean (Entada phaseoloides).

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Sundanese [Term?].

Classifier

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gandu

  1. (dialectal) classifier word for cylindrical objects

Further reading

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Narungga

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Noun

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gandu

  1. wallaby, in particular the rock wallaby

Ngadjuri

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Noun

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gandu

  1. wallaby, in particular the rock wallaby