មន្ត្រី
Khmer
noun
Definitions
- official, minister; bureaucrat
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit मन्त्री (adviser, counsellor, secretary, reciting mantra, one with mantra, one recite, one versed in mantra, consultant).
Origin
Sanskrit
मन्त्री
Gloss
adviser, counsellor, secretary, reciting mantra, one with mantra, one recite, one versed in mantra, consultant
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- मन्त्रिन् Sanskrit
- मन्त्री Sanskrit
- मन्त्रि Hindi
- นายกรัฐมนตรี Thai
- มนตรี Thai
- รัฐมนตรี Thai
- នាយក Central Khmer
- នាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី Central Khmer
- រដ្ឋ Central Khmer
- mantrī Old Khmer