mandairín
Irish (Donegal)
noun
Definitions
- (historical) mandarin high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire, etc.
Etymology
Borrowed from English mandarin (mandarin orange) derived from Portuguese mandarim (mandarin) derived from Malay menteri (minister) 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
- mandarin Hungarian
- mandarijn Dutch, Flemish
- mandorijn Dutch, Flemish
- mandarine French
- mandarin Norwegian Bokmål
- mandarim Portuguese
- mandarin Norwegian Nynorsk
- मन्त्रिन् Sanskrit
- मन्त्रिन्, मन्त्री Sanskrit
- मन्त्री Sanskrit
- mandarin Danish
- मंत्री Hindi
- मन्त्रि Hindi
- mandarin Indonesian
- menteri Malay
- perdana menteri Malay
- mantī Pali
- *mantrī́ Proto-Indo-Aryan
- மந்திரி Tamil
- മന്ത്രി Malayalam