mandarim
Portuguese
/mɐ̃.dɐ.ˈɾĩ/, /mɐ̃.da.ˈɾĩ/
noun
Definitions
- mandarin a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- (uncountable) Mandarin the official language of China and Taiwan
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay menteri (minister) derived from Hindi मन्त्रि derived from Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (councillor, minister).
Origin
Sanskrit
मन्त्रिन्
Gloss
councillor, minister
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mandarin English
- mandarinal English
- mandarinate English
- mandarindom English
- mandarinic English
- mandarining English
- mandarinism English
- mandarinship English
- Mandarine German
- mandarin Hungarian
- mandarinok Hungarian
- mandarinréce Hungarian
- Mandarijn Dutch, Flemish
- mandarijn Dutch, Flemish
- mandorijn Dutch, Flemish
- mandarine French
- mandarinier French
- mandarin Norwegian Bokmål
- mandarina Portuguese
- mandarin Norwegian Nynorsk
- मन्त्रिन् Sanskrit
- मन्त्रिन्, मन्त्री Sanskrit
- मन्त्री Sanskrit
- mandairín Irish
- mandarin Danish
- मंत्री Hindi
- मन्त्रि Hindi
- mandarin Indonesian
- mandarīns Latvian
- mandarin Faroese
- menteri Malay
- perdana menteri Malay
- mantī Pali
- *mantrī́ Proto-Indo-Aryan
- மந்திரி Tamil
- മന്ത്രി Malayalam
- màndarin Wolof