mandarin

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Spanish mandarín and Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, from Hindi mantri, from Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin), minister, councillor), from मन्त्र (mantra), counsel, maxim, mantra) + -इन् (-in), an agent suffix).

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Singular
mandarin

Plural
mandarins

mandarin (plural mandarins)

  1. (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
  2. A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
  3. A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles, often used pejoratively.
  4. A mandarin duck.
  5. (British) A senior civil servant.
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mandarin (comparative more mandarin, superlative most mandarin)

Positive
mandarin

Comparative
more mandarin

Superlative
most mandarin

  1. Pertaining to mandarins.
  2. Deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, elaborate.
    • 2007: 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 — Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26

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

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Singular
mandarin

Plural
mandarins

mandarin (plural mandarins)

  1. A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.
  2. A mandarin orange tree.
  3. An orange colour.
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[edit] Etymology

Spanish mandarín.

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mandarin

  1. mandarin (fruit).

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  • Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]

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[edit] Etymology

From Portuguese mandarim.

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mandarin c. (singular definite mandarinen, plural indefinite mandariner)

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

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mandarin n.

  1. (linguistics) Mandarin

[edit] French

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mandarin m. (plural mandarins)

  1. mandarin (of the former Chinese empire)
  2. Mandarin (language)

[edit] Hungarian

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  • IPA: /ˈmɒndɒrin/
  • Hyphenation: man‧da‧rin

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mandarin (not comparable)

  1. mandarin (fruit)

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mandarin (plural mandarinok)

  1. (historical) mandarin
  2. (singular only) Mandarin (language)
  3. mandarin (fruit)
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mandarin m. (plural mandarini) (Cyrillic spelling мандарин)

  1. mandarin (Chinese Imperial bureaucrat)

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Inflection for mandarin Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Base form mandarin mandarinen mandariner mandarinerna
Possessive form mandarins mandarinens mandariners mandarinernas

mandarin c.

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