mandarin

See also Mandarin, and mandarín

English

WOTD – 19 March 2009    

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmæn.dər.ɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"m{n.d@r.In/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmæn.dɚ.ɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"m{n.d@`.In/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: man‧da‧rin

Etymology 1

From Dutch mandorijn or 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”).

Noun

mandarin (plural mandarins)

1. (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
2. A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
3. (often pejorative) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
4. A mandarin duck.
5. (informal, UK) A senior civil servant.

Derived terms

• mandarinate
• mandarinism
• mandarinship

Translations

Chinese Imperial bureaucrat

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 官 (cmn) (guān)

• Czech: mandarín (cs) m
• Danish: mandarin (da) c
• Dutch: mandarijn (nl) m
• Esperanto: mandareno (eo)
• Finnish: mandariini (fi)
• French: mandarin (fr) m
• German: Mandarin (de) m
• Greek: μανδαρίνος (el) (mandarínos) n

• Hungarian: mandarin (hu)
• Italian: mandarino (it) m
• Macedonian: мандарин (mk) (mandarín) m
• Polish: mandaryn (pl) m
• Portuguese: mandarim (pt) m
• Russian: мандарин (ru) (mandarín) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: манда̀рӣн (sh) m

  Roman: mandàrīn (sh) m

• Swedish: mandarin (sv) c

elitist bureaucrat

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: mandarín (cs) m
• Finnish: aurinkokuningas (fi)

academic or literary elitist

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: aurinkokuningas (fi)

mandarin duck — see mandarin duck

informal: senior civil servant

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: mandarín (cs) m
• Finnish: hallitusherra (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Portuguese: mandarim (pt) m

• Swedish: byråkrat (sv) c, mandarin (sv) c, pamp (sv) c

Adjective

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mandarin (plural mandarins)

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

Translations

fruit

• Arabic: يوسف (ar) (yuusuf), يوسفي (ar) (yusufi) m

  Egyptian Arabic: يوستفندي (yustafandi) m

• Armenian: մանդարին (hy) (mandarin)
• Catalan: mandarina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜜柑 (cmn) (mìgān), 桔子 (cmn) (júzi)

• Czech: mandarinka (cs) f
• Danish: mandarin (da) c
• Faroese: mandarin (fo) f
• Finnish: mandariini (fi)
• Georgian: მანდარინი (ka) (mandarini)
• German: Mandarine (de) f
• Greek: μανταρίνι (el) (mantaríni) n

• Hungarian: mandarin (hu)
• Ido: mandarino (io), mandareno (io)
• Irish: mandairín (ga) m
• Japanese: 蜜柑 (ja) (mikan)
• Macedonian: мандарина (mk) (mandarína) f
• Nahuatl: otonlalaxtli (nah)
• Polish: mandarynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mandarina (pt) f, tangerina (pt) f, bergamota (pt) f, mexerica (pt) f
• Russian: мандарин (ru) (mandarín) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: mandarina (sh) f

• Slovak: mandarínka (sk) f
• Swedish: mandarin (sv) c

tree

• Catalan: mandariner (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: mandarinkovník (cs) m
• Finnish: mandariinipuu (fi)

• Irish: crann mandairíní (ga) m
• Macedonian: мандарина (mk) (mandarína) f
• Portuguese: tangerineira (pt) f, bergamoteira (pt) f, mexeriqueira (pt) f
• Slovak: mandarínkovník (sk) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: мандарин (bg) (mandarin) m (2)

• Spanish: mandarín (es) m (1, 2), mandarina (es) f (3)

External links

• Mandarin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Mirandan

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Spanish mandarín.

Noun

mandarin

1. mandarin (fruit)

Declension

    declension of mandarin

nominative	mandarin
genitive	mandarinniñ
dative	mandaringe
accusative	mandarinni
locative	mandarinde
ablative	mandarinden

References

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

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Danish

Etymology

From Portuguese mandarim.

Noun

mandarin c (singular definite mandarinen, plural indefinite mandariner)

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

Inflection

    Inflection of mandarin

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	mandarin	mandarinen	mandariner	mandarinerne
genitive	mandarins	mandarinens	mandariners	mandarinernes

Noun

mandarin n

1. Mandarin

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Faroese

Etymology

From Danish mandarin, from Dutch mandorijn or 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”).

Noun

mandarin f (genitive singular mandarinar, plural mandarinir)

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

Declension

f2	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mandarin	mandarinin	mandarinir	mandarinirnar
Accusative	mandarin	mandarinina	mandarinir	mandarinirnar
Dative	mandarin	mandarinini	mandarinum	mandarinunum
Genitive	mandarinar	mandarinarinnar	mandarina	mandarinanna

Noun

mandarin n (genitive singular mandarins)

1. Mandarin

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	mandarin
Accusative	mandarin
Dative	mandarini
Genitive	mandarins

See also

• mandarinur

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French

Adjective

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

1. mandarin (of the former Chinese empire)

Noun

mandarin m (usually uncountable)

1. Mandarin (language)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mandarin (not comparable)

1. mandarin (fruit)

Noun

mandarin (plural mandarinok)

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

Wikipedia ^hu

Declension

declension of mandarin singular plural nominative mandarin mandarinok accusative mandarint mandarinokat dative mandarinnak mandarinoknak instrumental mandarinnal mandarinokkal causal-final mandarinért mandarinokért translative mandarinná mandarinokká terminative mandarinig mandarinokig essive-formal mandarinként mandarinokként essive-modal - - inessive mandarinban mandarinokban superessive mandarinon mandarinokon adessive mandarinnál mandarinoknál illative mandarinba mandarinokba sublative mandarinra mandarinokra allative mandarinhoz mandarinokhoz elative mandarinból mandarinokból delative mandarinról mandarinokról ablative mandarintól mandarinoktól

possessives of mandarin possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. mandarinom mandarinjaim 2nd person sing. mandarinod mandarinjaid 3rd person sing. mandarinja mandarinjai 1st person plural mandarinunk mandarinjaink 2nd person plural mandarinotok mandarinjaitok 3rd person plural mandarinjuk mandarinjaik

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mandàrīn m (Cyrillic spelling манда̀рӣн)

1. mandarin (Chinese Imperial bureaucrat)

Declension

    declension of mandarin

	singular	plural
nominative	mandàrīn	mandarini
genitive	mandarína	mandarina
dative	mandarinu	mandarinima
accusative	mandarina	mandarine
vocative	mandarine	mandarini
locative	mandarinu	mandarinima
instrumental	mandarinom	mandarinima

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Swedish

Noun

mandarin c

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

Declension

Declension of mandarin

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mandarin	mandarinen	mandariner	mandarinerna
genitive	mandarins	mandarinens	mandariners	mandarinernas