mandarín

• IPA^(key): [ˈmandariːn]

mandarín m anim

1. mandarin (person)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• mandarim (reintegrationist)

mandarín (feminine mandarina, masculine plural mandaríns, feminine plural mandarinas)

1. bossy

   Synonym: mandón

mandarín m (uncountable)

1. Mandarin (language)

mandarín n (indeclinable)

1. Mandarin (language)

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

• IPA^(key): /mandaˈɾin/ [mãn̪.d̪aˈɾĩn]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: man‧da‧rín

mandarín (feminine mandarina, masculine plural mandarines, feminine plural mandarinas)

1. mandarin (referring to the language or historically the high government bureaucrats of Imperial China)

mandarín m (uncountable)

1. Mandarin (language)
   • 2021 April 26, John Malathronas, “¿Cuáles son los idiomas más fáciles (y difíciles) de aprender para los hablantes nativos de inglés?”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     Cada palabra escrita cuando se pronuncia es mutuamente incomprensible entre un hablante de mandarín en Beijing y un hablante de cantonés en Hong Kong.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

mandarín m (plural mandarines)

1. (historical) mandarin (a high government bureaucrat of Imperial China)

• → Crimean Tatar: mandarin (“mandarin orange”)
• → Tagalog: Mandarin (“language”)

• “mandarín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024