Root: Portuguese
1. Noun. Portuguese and English
pronunciation (jin-jee) - a nickname given to a special girl who makes one smile and feel warm. "Dindi" should be used only for a girl that is taken seriously by the person who bestows it. The girl is cute, adorable,
considerate, loyal, trustworthy, and gives her admirer a unique feeling every time she is around.
2. "Dindi" is given to a kind of girl that one believes they could never forget.
3. A song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Aloysio de Oliveira. It is a world-famous Bossa Nova song. Jobim wrote this piece especially for the Brazilian singer Sylvia Telles. "Dindi" is a reference to a farm named "Dirindi", in Brazil, a place that Jobim and his friend/
collaborator Vinicius de Moraes used to visit (according to Helena Jobim, his sister, in her book "Antonio Carlos Jobim - Um Homem Iluminado"). In December 1966, just a short while after Telles had recorded this piece with the guitarist Rosinha de Valença, she was killed in a road accident in Rio de Janeiro.
(Source:
wikipedia).
