admin

See also: admin. and Admin.

English

Alternative forms

• admin.
• Admin. (law)

Etymology

Clipping of administrator or administration.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăd'mĭn", ədmĭn', IPA^(key): /ˈædˌmɪn/, /ədˈmɪn/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

Noun

admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)

1. (uncountable, informal) Administration, or administrative work.

   There's a lot of admin involved in the birth of a child.

2. (countable, informal) An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government).
   • 2020 August 17, Juliet Eilperin, “Trump finalizes drilling plan for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge”, in The Washington Post‎^[2]:

     Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted after the announcement, “I will not stop fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stop the Trump admin’s plan for drilling.”

3. (countable, informal) An administrator (one who administers affairs).
   • 2020 December 28, Zach Montellaro, “Georgia election admins battle Covid and conspiracies ahead of Senate runoffs”, in Politico‎^[3]:

     Georgia’s election administrators are fighting bizarre conspiracy theories, ballooning costs and coronavirus-related staffing problems as they prepare for the state’s contentious, nationally watched Senate runoffs next week.

4. (countable, informal, computing) A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).

   Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster.

5. (countable, informal, Internet) A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other uses.

   The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.

Derived terms

• admin vortex
• adminhood
• adminship
• badmin
• modmin

Translations

systems administrator

• Amaimon: noroozi
• Finnish: ylläpitäjä (fi)
• Korean: 운영자 (unyeongja), 관리자 (ko) (gwallija), 어드민 (eodeumin)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: ادمین (admin)
• Polish: admin (pl) m
• Portuguese: admin m
• Russian: сисадми́н (ru) m (sisadmín)

user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges

• Armenian: ադմին (admin), կայքավար (kaykʻavar)
• Finnish: ylläpitäjä (fi)
• Korean: 어드민 (eodeumin)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: ادمین (admin)
• Portuguese: admin m

Verb

admin (third-person singular simple present admins, present participle admining or adminning, simple past and past participle admined or adminned)

1. (transitive, computing, informal) To serve as an administrator for or of.

Translations

to serve as admin

• Finnish: ylläpitää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• Damin, Mdina, Midan, Minda, amind, danim, mandi, manid

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English admin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.mɪn/
• Hyphenation: ad‧min

Noun

admin m (plural admins)

1. (Internet) admin, administrator (user with special privileges)

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Hungarian

Etymology

Shortening of adminisztrátor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒdmin]
• Hyphenation: ad‧min
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

admin (plural adminok)

1. administrator

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	admin	adminok
accusative	admint	adminokat
dative	adminnak	adminoknak
instrumental	adminnal	adminokkal
causal-final	adminért	adminokért
translative	adminná	adminokká
terminative	adminig	adminokig
essive-formal	adminként	adminokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	adminban	adminokban
superessive	adminon	adminokon
adessive	adminnál	adminoknál
illative	adminba	adminokba
sublative	adminra	adminokra
allative	adminhoz	adminokhoz
elative	adminból	adminokból
delative	adminról	adminokról
ablative	admintól	adminoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	adminé	adminoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	adminéi	adminokéi

Possessive forms of admin
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	adminom	adminjaim
2nd person sing.	adminod	adminjaid
3rd person sing.	adminja	adminjai
1st person plural	adminunk	adminjaink
2nd person plural	adminotok	adminjaitok
3rd person plural	adminjuk	adminjaik

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Polish

Etymology

Clipping of administrator, probably under international influence. First attested in 1991

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈad.min/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -admin
• Syllabification: ad‧min

Noun

admin m pers

1. (technology) admin

   Synonym: administrator

   nadgorliwy admin ― a hot-headed admin

   rozsądny admin ― a reasonable admin

   dowolny admin ― any admin

   inny admin ― another admin

   admin forum ― a forum admin

   admin serwera ― a server admin

   admin sieci ― a network admin

   admin strony ― a webpage admin

   pisać/napisać do admina ― to write to admin

   zwracać się/zwrócić się do admina ― to turn/appeal to an admin

   zgłaszać się/zgłosić się do/na admina ― to report to an admin

   głosowanie na admina ― an admin vote

Declension

Declension of admin

	singular	plural
nominative	admin	admini/adminy (deprecative)
genitive	admina	adminów
dative	adminowi	adminom
accusative	admina	adminów
instrumental	adminem	adminami
locative	adminie	adminach
vocative	adminie	admini

Related terms

adjectives

• administracyjny
• administratorski

 

adverb

• administracyjnie

 

nouns

• administracja
• administrator
• administratorka
• administratorstwo
• administratura
• administratywista

 

verbs

• administrować
• zaadministrować

 

References

• Pęzik, Piotr, Przepiórkowski, A., Bańko, M., Górski, R., Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎^[4], Wydawnictwo PWN

Further reading

• admin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• admin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad͡ʒ.ˈmĩ/

Noun

admin m or f by sense (plural admins)

1. (computing) administrator (computing: one who responsible for software and maintenance of a computer or network)

   Synonym: administrador