мандарин

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ماندارين
Cyrillic мандарин
Latin mandarin

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian мандари́н (mandarín), from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, minister, councillor), from मन्त्र (mantra, counsel, maxim, mantra) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix).

Noun

мандарин (mandarin)

  1. mandarin (Chinese bureaucrat; citrus fruit)
  2. Mandarin, Putonghua, Guoyu

Declension

Russian

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Noun

мандари́н (mandarínm anim or m inan (genitive мандари́на, nominative plural мандари́ны, genitive plural мандари́нов or мандари́н, relational adjective мандари́новый)

  1. mandarin (Chinese bureaucrat; citrus fruit)
    • 1973, Михаил Булгаков [Mikhail Bulgakov], “Глава XXVIII. Последние похождения Коровьева и Бегемота”, in Мастер и Маргарита; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Master and Margarita, London: Penguin Books, 1997:
      Толстя́к взял свой при́мус под мы́шку, овладе́л ве́рхним мандари́ном в пирами́де и, тут же со шку́рой сожра́вши его́, принялся́ за второ́й.
      Tolstják vzjal svoj prímus pod mýšku, ovladél vérxnim mandarínom v piramíde i, tut že so škúroj sožrávši jevó, prinjalsjá za vtorój.
      The fat fellow put his primus under his arm, laid hold of the top mandarin on the pyramid, straight away gobbled it up skin and all, and began on a second.
  2. Mandarin, Putonghua, Guoyu (also: путунхуа, литературный китайский)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mandǎriːn/
  • Hyphenation: ман‧да‧рин

Noun

манда̀рӣн m (Latin spelling mandàrīn)

  1. mandarin (Chinese Imperial bureaucrat)

Declension

Ukrainian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, minister, councillor), from मन्त्र (mantra, counsel, maxim, mantra) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

мандари́н (mandarýnm inan (genitive мандари́на, nominative plural мандари́ни, genitive plural мандари́нів, relational adjective мандари́новий)

  1. mandarin

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