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mandat

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See also: Mandat, mandát, and mandât

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mandātum.

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Noun

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mandat m (plural mandats)

  1. writ, warrant, order
  2. mandate
  3. (law) power of attorney
  4. (political science) term

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mandātum, from mandō (put in one's hands, command), from Proto-Indo-European *man- (hand) + *dʰeh₁- (put).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mandat m (plural mandats)

  1. mandate
  2. postal order, money order
  3. (law) power of attorney, proxy
  4. (police) warrant
  5. term (of office)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: mandate (semantic loan) (sense 5, in Canada)
  • Ottoman Turkish: ماندا (manda)

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch mandaat, from Middle Dutch mandaet, from Old French mandat, from Latin mandātum.

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Noun

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mandat (plural mandat-mandat)

  1. mandate (official command)
  2. mandate (the authority to do something or to act)
    Synonyms: kuasa, wewenang

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Ladin

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Noun

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mandat m (plural mandac)

  1. mandate

Latin

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Verb

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mandat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of mandō

Malay

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Noun

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mandat (Jawi spelling مندت, plural mandat-mandat or mandat2)

  1. mandate

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Borrowed from German Mandat, from Latin mandātum.

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Noun

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mandat m inan (diminutive mandacik)

  1. (law) ticket, fine (document prepared by the police compelling the recipient to pay a fine for a misdemeanor or a traffic violation)
    Właśnie dostałem mandat za złe parkowanie.
    I've just received a bad parking ticket.
  2. (politics) seat (membership in an elected representative body, such as the parliament)
    W ostatnich wyborach nasza partia zdobyła dwadzieścia mandatów.
    In the last election our party won twenty seats.
  3. (politics, rare, singular only) mandate (authority granted by the electorate)
    Rząd otrzymał silny mandat do zreformowania systemu opieki zdrowotnej.
    The government has received a strong mandate to reform the healthcare system.

Declension

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Derived terms

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adjective
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Further reading

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French mandat.

Noun

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mandat n (plural mandate)

  1. mandate

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative mandat mandatul mandate mandatele
genitive-dative mandat mandatului mandate mandatelor
vocative mandatule mandatelor

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mǎndaːt/
  • Hyphenation: man‧dat

Noun

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màndāt m inan (Cyrillic spelling ма̀нда̄т)

  1. mandate
  2. term (of office)

Declension

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Declension of mandat
singular plural
nominative màndāt mandati
genitive mandáta mandata
dative mandatu mandatima
accusative mandat mandate
vocative mandate mandati
locative mandatu mandatima
instrumental mandatom mandatima

Further reading

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  • mandat”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

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Noun

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mandat n

  1. mandate

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Welsh

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English mandate.

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Noun

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mandat m (plural mandatau)

  1. alternative form of mandad (mandate)

Mutation

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Mutated forms of mandat
radical soft nasal aspirate
mandat fandat unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “mandat”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies