menteri

• manti
• mentri

From Malay menteri, from Sanskrit मन्त्री (mantrī). Doublet of mandarin, manti, and mantri.

• (Standard Indonesian)
  • IPA^(key): /məntəˈri/ [mən̪.t̪əˈri]
    • Rhymes: -i
    • Syllabification: men‧te‧ri
  • IPA^(key): /mənˈtri/ [mən̪ˈt̪ri]

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    • Rhymes: -i

mêntêri (plural menteri-menteri or para menteri)

1. (government) minister (politician who heads a ministry)

   Synonym: (obsolete) nayaka

2. (chess) queen (a chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful)

   Synonyms: ratu, ster

3. (chess) bishop (the chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝)

   Synonyms: gajah, luncup, loper

• “menteri” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Sanskrit म॒न्त्री (mantrī́, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, “an agent suffix”). Doublet of manteri.

• IPA^(key): /ˈməntəri/ [ˈmən̪.t̪ə.ri]
• Rhymes: -ri, -i
• Hyphenation: men‧te‧ri

menteri (Jawi spelling منتري, plural menteri-menteri)

1. (government) A minister (head of a ministry).

   menteri luar negeri ― minister of foreign affairs

2. (archaic, historical) A high-ranking officer (the sultan's adviser, etc.).
   • 1812, William Marsden, A Dictionary of the Malayan language in two parts, Malayan and English and English and Malayan‎^[1], →OCLC, page 2:

     Pada sūltan atau pada mantrī-nia

     To the sultan or to his ministers

3. (chess) The queen piece in chess.

   Synonyms: bendahara, permaisuri, ratu

• > Indonesian: menteri (inherited)
• → Portuguese: mandarim (see there for further descendants)

• Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, page 114
• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “منتري mĕntĕri”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 135
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “منتري mantĕri, mĕntĕri or munteri”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 675
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “mĕntĕri”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 131

• “menteri” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.