mandarim

Latin

Verb

mandārim

first-person singular perfect active subjunctive of mandō

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /mɐ̃.daˈɾĩ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐ̃.dɐˈɾĩ/

Rhymes: -ĩ
Hyphenation: man‧da‧rim

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *men-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántras

Sanskrit मन्त्र॑ (mántra)

Sanskrit -इन् (-in)

Sanskrit म॒न्त्रिन् (mantrín)bor.

Malay menteribor.

Portuguese mandarim

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

Compare also bailarim, an alternative form of bailarino.

Noun

mandarim m (plural mandarins)

(historical) mandarin (a high government bureaucrat of Imperial China)
(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
→ Estonian: mandariin (or possibly from French mandarine)
→ French: mandarin
- → Breton: mandarin
- → Greek: μανδαρίνος (mandarínos)
→ French: mandarine (“mandarin orange”) (see there for further descendants)
→ German: Mandarin
- → Hungarian: mandarin
→ Italian: mandarino
- → Maltese: mandolin
- → 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 script: мандарин
- Latin script: mandarin
→ Spanish: mandarín
- → Crimean Tatar: mandarin (“mandarin orange”)
- → Tagalog: Mandarin (“language”)
→ Swedish: mandarin

Etymology 2

Clipping of diamante-mandarim.

Noun

mandarim m (plural mandarins)

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