Ganduとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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.

別の表記

• goondu (Singapore Colloquial English)

派生語

• librandu (Indian politics)
• Imrandu (Pakistani politics)

語源 2

From Hausa gandū (“large farm”).

名詞

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.