candi

16th c,. from Italian candi.

candi (feminine singular candie, masculine plural candis, feminine plural candies)

1. candied

candi m (plural candis)

1. sugar candy
2. (Louisiana, Cajun French, Paroisse St.Martin) an exhausted man

• sucre candi

candi m (feminine singular candie, masculine plural candis, feminine plural candies)

1. past participle of candir

• “candi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Malay candi or Javanese ꦕꦤ꧀ꦝꦶ (candhi)

• From Sanskrit चण्डिकागृह (caṇḍikāgṛha, “temple of Durgā”)
• From Pali cedi, from Sanskrit चैत्य (caitya, “funeral monument”)

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃandi]
• Hyphenation: can‧di

candi (plural candi-candi, first-person possessive candiku, second-person possessive candimu, third-person possessive candinya)

1. ancient temple (archeological site of former Hindu or Buddhist temple in Indonesia)
   • 2007, Gabriel Sindhunata, Petruk jadi guru, p. 177:

     Hikmah tersebut menghunjam dengan dalam ketika ritual telanjang itu sudah 11 kali mengelilingi candi.

• “candi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic قَنْدِيّ‎ (qandiyy, “candied”), from قَنْد‎ (qand, “hard candy made by boiling cane sugar”), from Persian کند‎ (kand).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.di/, [ˈkän̪d̪i]

candi (invariable) (archaic)

1. candied, only used in zucchero candi

• candire
• candito

Borrowed from Spanish candil, from Arabic قِنْدِيل‎ (qindīl), from Classical Syriac ܩܢܕܠܐ‎ (qandēlā), from Ancient Greek κάνδηλα (kándēla), from Latin candēla (“candle”).

candi

1. lamp

• Stewart, Cloyd; Stewart, Ruth D.; colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎ (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 4