pandu

pandu m (plural pandos)

1. small plain or mountain meadow
2. hill smaller than those around it

pandu m sg (feminine singular panda, neuter singular pando, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandes)

1. flat
2. plain
3. smashed, smooshed-in
4. deceptively wide (used to describe an object whose width obscures its shallowness)

   Escudiella panda, enlléname’l güeyu y sácame l’alma

   A wide/flat plate fills my eyes and strips me of my soul

• pandoe (1901–1947)

From Malay pandu, from Classical Malay pandu,

• from Sanskrit पाण्डु (pāṇḍu, “Pandu, name of a king”, literally “yellowish white, white, pale”).
• from Old Javanese paṇḍo (“female attendant or servant”).
• Semantic loan from Dutch padvinder. Coined by Indonesian statesman Agus Salim in 1928.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpandu/ [ˈpan.du]
• Rhymes: -andu
• Syllabification: pan‧du

pandu (plural pandu-pandu)

1. guard
2. scout (a member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement)

   Synonym: pramuka

3. guide, pathfinder
4. pilot (a person who steers a ship)
5. pilot boat

• “pandu” 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.

From Old Javanese paṇḍo (“female attendant or servant”). Sense of guide from semantic loan from Dutch padvinder coined by Indonesian statesman Agus Salim in 1928.

pandu (Jawi spelling ڤندو, plural pandu-pandu)

1. (obsolete) guard
2. scout (a member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement)

   Synonym: pengakap

3. guide, pathfinder
4. (obsolete) leader of a dance troupe
5. (obsolete) pilot (a person who steers a ship)

   Synonym: pengemudi

6. pilot boat

Use in Malaysia and Singapore survives in the name Pandu Puteri.

memandu

1. to guide, to drive
2. to test, to try, to pioneer something

   Synonyms: cuba, uji, rintis

3. (obsolete) to clear the forest of any brushwood and weeds for farming land

   Synonym: panduh

berpandukan

1. to be guided by something

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ڤندو pandoe”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 58
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ڤندو pandu”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 475
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “pandu”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 206

• “pandu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Latin pandus.

pandu m (plural pandus)

1. (colloquial) stomach (organ)

pandu class IX (plural pandu class X)

1. type of large silvery fish