mandra

See also: mândra, Mândra, mândră, and Mândră

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mandra (“flock”). Compare the Italian expression darsi alla mandra (“to give oneself to idleness”, literally “to give oneself to the herd”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈman.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈman.dɾa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

mandra f (plural mandres)

1. laziness

   Synonyms: peresa, accídia

   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 8, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Ella no es movia del seu matalàs de molsa. Mirava el cel i estirava els braços, amb mandra.

     She didn't move from her mossy mattress. She looked at the sky, lazily streching her arms.

Derived terms

• mandrejar
• mandrós

Further reading

• “mandra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “mandra”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Italian

Noun

mandra f (plural mandre)

1. (uncommon) alternative form of mandria (“herd”)

Further reading

• “mandra”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
• “mandra” in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Javanese

Romanization

mandra

1. romanization of ꦩꦤ꧀ꦢꦿ

Latin

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek μάνδρα (mándra, “enclosed space; barn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈman.dra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈman.dra]

Noun

mandra f (genitive mandrae); first declension

1. (poetic) a stall or pen for cattle
2. a column or train of pack animals
3. an enclosure used in the board game Ludus latrunculorum

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mandra	mandrae
genitive	mandrae	mandrārum
dative	mandrae	mandrīs
accusative	mandram	mandrās
ablative	mandrā	mandrīs
vocative	mandra	mandrae

Descendants

• Catalan: mandra
• Italian: mandria, mandra
• Sardinian: mandra
• → Albanian: mandër
• → Old Irish: mainder
  • Irish: mainnear

References

• “mandra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mandra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mandra", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mandra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Leschber, Corinna (2011), “Zeitliche Tiefe etymologischer Bezüge [Time depth in etymological research]”, in Linguistique Balkanique‎^[1] (in German), volume 50, numbers 2–3, Sofia, pages 75–78
• “mandra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mandra, variant of mandria, from Latin mandra, from Ancient Greek μάνδρα (mándra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.dra/
• Rhymes: -andra

Noun

mandra f (plural mnadar, paucal mandriet, diminutive mnajdra)

1. an outdoors pen, traditionally in the courtyard of a farmhouse, used mostly for small livestock such as chickens, goats, etc.
2. a plot of ground at the back of a farmhouse
3. mess, disorder

   Alternative form: mandar

Derived terms

• tmandar

See also

• maqjel
• stalla

Occitan

Etymology

Probably from Provençal mandrat/mandre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmandɾo]

• Audio (Languedoc):

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Noun

mandra f (plural mandras)

1. fox

Dialectal variants

• guèine
• rainal
• volp
• rainard