mandarine

See also: Mandarine and mandarinë

English

Noun

mandarine (plural mandarines)

1. Alternative spelling of mandarin (“citrus fruit”).
2. Obsolete form of mandarin (“Chinese bureaucrat”).

Anagrams

• meandrian, meandrina

French

Etymology

Nominalization of orange mandarine, from Portuguese mandarim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.da.ʁin/
• Rhymes: -in

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Noun

mandarine f (plural mandarines)

1. mandarin orange

Derived terms

• mandarinier
• crème de mandarine

Descendants

In some languages, spelling may be derive from Portuguese mandarim, but meaning from French.

• → Albanian: mandarinë
• → Armenian: մանդարին (mandarin)
• → Azerbaijani: mandarin
• → Basque: mandarina
• → Belarusian: мандарын (mandaryn)
• → Bulgarian: мандарина (mandarina)
• → Catalan: mandarina
• → Czech: mandarinka (with diminutive suffix -ka)
• → Dutch: mandarijn
• → English: mandarin
• → Estonian: mandariin (or possibly from Portuguese mandarim)
• → Finnish: mandariini
• → Galician: mandarina
• → German: Mandarine
• → Greek: μανταρίνι (mantaríni)
• → Kyrgyz: мандарин (mandarin)
• → Macedonian: мандарина (mandarina)
• → Low German: Mandarien
• → Maori: manarini
• → Norwegian: mandarin
• → Persian: ماندارین (mândârin)
• → Polish: mandarynka (with diminutive suffix -ka)
• → Romanian: mandarină
• → Russian: мандарин (mandarin)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: мандарина
  • Latin script: mandarina
• → Slovene: mandarínka (with diminutive suffix -ka)
• → Spanish: mandarina
• → Swedish: mandarin
• → Tajik: мандарин (mandarin)
• → Turkmen: mandarin
• → Ukrainian: мандарин (mandaryn)
• → Uzbek: mandarin
• → Wolof: màndarin
• → Yiddish: מאַנדאַרין (mandarin)

Further reading

• “mandarine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

mandarine f pl

1. feminine plural of mandarino

Noun

mandarine f pl

1. plural of mandarina

Anagrams

• mandriane