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pandu

“pandu” is a Malay word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. guard
  2. scout (a member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement)
  3. guide, pathfinder
  4. leader of a dance troupe
  5. pilot (a person who steers a ship)
  6. pilot boat

verb

  1. to guide, to drive
  2. to test, to try, to pioneer something
  3. to clear the forest of any brushwood and weeds for farming land
  4. to be guided by something

Etymology

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.

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