mandarim
Latin
Portuguese
Etymology
From Malay menteri, manteri, from Hindi मन्त्रि (mantri), from Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, “an agent suffix”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mandarim m (plural mandarins)
Descendants
- → Czech: mandarín
- → Danish: mandarin
- → Dutch: mandarijn
- → English: mandarin
- → Irish: mandairín
- → French: mandarin
- → Breton: mandarin
- → Greek: μανδαρίνος (mandarínos)
- → French: mandarine (“mandarin orange”) (see there for further descendants)
- → German: Mandarin
- → Hungarian: mandarin
- → Italian: mandarino
- → Latvian: mandarīns (or from Dutch mandarijn, or via another European language)
- → Macedonian: мандарин (mandarin)
- → Polish: mandaryn
- → Romanian: mandarin
- → Russian: мандарин (mandarin)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: mandarín
- → Crimean Tatar: mandarin
- → Swedish: mandarin
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