candu

See also: cãndu, cándú, and cǎndú

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay candu, from Hindi चंडू (caṇḍū), from Tamil சாந்து (cāntu, mortar, plaster; powder).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃandu/ [ˈt͡ʃan.du]
  • Rhymes: -andu
  • Syllabification: can‧du

Noun

candu (plural candu-candu)

  1. opium: a yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine
  2. opium poppy: Papaver somniferum, the species of plant from which opium and poppy seeds are extracted
  3. tar: a black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials residual byproduct of tobacco smoke
    Synonym: tar
  4. (figurative) hobby
    Synonym: kegemaran

Alternative forms

Synonyms

Affixed terms

  • kecanduan
  • mencandu
  • mencandui
  • mencandukan
  • pecandu
  • pencandu
  • percanduan

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

candu

  1. romanization of ꦕꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi चंडू (caṇḍū), from Tamil சாந்து (cāntu, mortar, plaster; powder).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃandu/ [ˈt͡ʃan.du]
  • Rhymes: -andu, -du, -u
  • Hyphenation: can‧du

Noun

candu (Jawi spelling چندو, plural candu-candu)

  1. opium (drug from opium poppy)
    Synonym: madat

Descendants

  • > Indonesian: candu (inherited)
  • Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ (candu, opium)
  • English: chandu

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Tamil சாந்து (cāntu, mortar, plaster; powder). Compare to Javanese ꦕꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ (candu, opium, tar).

Noun

candu

  1. a kind of unguent, a kind of dye.

Further reading

  • "candu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Sassarese

Alternative forms

  • cand' (apocopic, found before a vowel sound)

Etymology

From Latin quandō (when).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkandu/

Adverb

candu

  1. (interrogative) when
    Candu ischumenza l'ippittàcuru?When does the show start?

Conjunction

candu

  1. when
    Veni candu voiCome whenever you want (literally, “Come when you want”)
    • 1863, chapter VIII, in Giovanni Spano, transl., Lu càntiggu de li càntigghi di Salamoni [Solomon's Song of songs]‎[2] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Canticum canticorum, verse 10, page 19:
      Eju lu muru: e li me’ titti cumenti una torra, finza da candu denanz’a eddu sogg’eju comu chidda, ch’ha incuntraddu la pazi.
      [Éiu lu muru: e li me’ titti cumenti una torra, finza da candu denanz’a eddu sogg’éiu comu chidda, ch’ha incuntraddu la pazi.]
      I [am] a wall, and my breasts as towers, since when in front of him I am as one who has found peace.
    • 1956, Salvator Ruju, “Pascha d’amòri [Easter of love]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 75:
      Lassa i la pruzissïoni
      a mamma tóia arrasendi.
      Candu lu Cristhu è passendi
      cresci la mé passïoni.
      Leave your mother praying in the procession. When Christ passes, my passion grows.
    • 1989 [1934], Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Paràuri [Words], adaptation of Parole by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 11:
      S’isciogliaristhia i lu matessi tempu
      lu muntoni trimendu di l’ammenti
      cument’e nèbi candu v’è lu sòri.
      [original: [] Insieme
      delle memorie spaventose il cumulo
      si scioglierebbe, come neve al sole.
      ]
      At the same time, the dreadful heap of memories would melt like snow when the sun is there.

References

  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes