mandarim
Latin
Verb
mandārim
- first-person singular perfect active subjunctive of mandō
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
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɐ̃.dɐ.ˈɾĩ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /mɐ̃.da.ˈɾĩ/
- Hyphenation: man‧da‧rim
- Rhymes: -ĩ
Noun
mandarim m (plural mandarins)
- mandarin (a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire).
- (uncountable) Mandarin (the official language of China and Taiwan)
- Synonym: chinês
- O mandarim é a língua mais falada do mundo.
- Mandarin is the world's most spoken language.
Descendants
- → Czech: mandarín
- → Danish: mandarin
- → Dutch: mandarijn
- Afrikaans: mandaryn
- → Latvian: mandarīns (or from Portuguese mandarim, or via another European language)
- → 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
- → Maltese: mandolina
- → Turkish: mandalina
- → Latvian: mandarīns (or from Dutch mandarijn, or via another European language)
- → Macedonian: мандарин (mandarin)
- → Polish: mandaryn
- → Romanian: mandarin
- → Russian: мандарин (mandarin)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мандарин
- Latin: mandarin
- → Spanish: mandarín
- → Crimean Tatar: mandarin
- → Swedish: mandarin