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

From Malay pandu, from Classical Malay pandu, ultimately from Sanskrit पाण्डु (pāṇḍu, “Pandu, name of a king”, literally “yellowish white, white, pale”).

• Semantic loan from Dutch padvinder. Coined by Indonesian statesman Agus Salim in 1928.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpandu]
• Hyphenation: pan‧du

pandu (first-person possessive panduku, second-person possessive pandumu, third-person possessive pandunya)

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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin pandus. Editor note:^{Latin - not descended from Portuguese: Possibly from (subjunctive) of pandō} (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pandu m (plural pandus)

1. (colloquial) stomach (organ)