mandarin

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/

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• Hyphenation: man‧da‧rin

From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix).

Chinese folk etymology sometimes erroneously claims that the word originates from 滿大人 (Mǎndàrén, literally “Manchu important man”).

mandarin (plural mandarins)

1. (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. [from 1580s]
2. A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
3. (often derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
   • 1966, "The Beauty of His Malice", Time:

     Its sting preserved to literature a fierce peculiar genius [Waugh] who, in the 40 years before his death last week at 62, achieved recognition as the grand old mandarin of modern British prose and as a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers’ row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters.

4. (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
5. (informal, Britain) A senior civil servant.

• mandarinate
• mandarinism
• mandarinship

• → Irish: mandairín

mandarin (comparative more mandarin, superlative most mandarin)

1. Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist. [from 20th c.]
   • 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 58:

     A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.

   • 2007, Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26:

     Though alert to riddles' strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cook's tastes are mandarin, and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevens's meditations on the life of poetic images and simile […].

From French mandarine, feminine of mandarin, probably formed as Etymology 1, above, from the yellow colour of the mandarins' costume.

mandarin (plural mandarins)

1. Ellipsis of mandarin orange:
   1. a small, sweet citrus fruit.
   2. tree of species Citrus reticulata.
2. (color) An orange colour.

• mandarin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Mirandan

Borrowed from Spanish mandarín.

mandarin

1. mandarin (fruit)

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From Portuguese mandarim.

mandarin c (singular definite mandarinen, plural indefinite mandariner)

1. mandarin (Chinese Imperial bureaucrat)
2. mandarin orange, mandarin (a small, sweet citrus fruit)

mandarin n

1. Mandarin

• “mandarin” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Danish mandarin, from Dutch mandorijn or Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, 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”).

mandarin f (genitive singular mandarinar, plural mandarinir)

1. mandarin orange, mandarin (a small, sweet citrus fruit)

mandarin n (genitive singular mandarins)

1. Mandarin

• mandarinur

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mandarin (feminine singular mandarine, masculine plural mandarins, feminine plural mandarines)

1. mandarin (of the former Chinese empire)

• → Breton: mandarin
• → Greek: μανδαρίνος (mandarínos)

mandarin m (uncountable)

1. Mandarin (language)

• “mandarin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒndɒrin]
• Hyphenation: man‧da‧rin

International word, it came into Hungarian mainly via German, originally from Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri.[1]

mandarin (plural mandarinok)

1. (historical) mandarin
2. (singular only) Mandarin (language)

International word, it came into Hungarian mainly via German, probably formed as Etymology 1, above, from the yellow colour of the mandarins' costume.

mandarin (plural mandarinok)

1. mandarin, mandarin orange (fruit)

From Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), Malay menteri, manteri, and Portuguese mandarim.

mandarin m (definite singular mandarinen, indefinite plural mandariner, definite plural mandarinene)

1. (uncountable) Mandarin (official language in China)
2. a mandarin ((formerly) a Chinese official; (now) a bureaucrat)
3. (fruit) a mandarin or mandarin orange

• “mandarin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), Malay menteri, manteri, and Portuguese mandarim.

mandarin m (definite singular mandarinen, indefinite plural mandarinar, definite plural mandarinane)

1. (uncountable) Mandarin (official language in China)
2. a mandarin ((formerly) a Chinese official; (now) a bureaucrat)
3. (fruit) a mandarin or mandarin orange

• “mandarin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /mandǎriːn/
• Hyphenation: man‧da‧rin

mandàrīn m (Cyrillic spelling манда̀рӣн)

1. mandarin (Chinese Imperial bureaucrat)

mandarin c

1. mandarin orange
2. (historical) mandarin; a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
3. (non-inflectable, not comparable) Mandarin