# gandu
## English
### Etymology 1

From Hindustani گانڈو / गांडू (gāṇḍū).

#### Noun

gandu (plural gandus)
* (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.
* (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

* goondu (Singapore Colloquial English)

##### Derived terms

* librandu (Indian politics)

### Etymology 2

From Hausa gandū (“large farm”).

#### Noun

gandu (plural gandus)
* (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
### Etymology

From a Songhay word for "land".

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

gandū m (plural gandā̀yē, possessed form gandun)
* large farm, usually worked by a single family

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡandu/
* Hyphenation: gan‧du

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

gandu (plural gandu-gandu)
* spadefish (Ephippus orbis)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

gandu (plural gandu-gandu)
* box bean (Entada phaseoloides)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Sundanese [Term?].

#### Classifier

gandu
* (dialectal) classifier word for cylindrical objects

### Further reading

* “gandu” 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.

## Narungga
### Noun

gandu
* wallaby, in particular the rock wallaby

## Ngadjuri
### Noun

gandu
* wallaby, in particular the rock wallaby