mandarine
English
Noun
mandarine (plural mandarines)
- Alternative spelling of mandarin (“citrus fruit”).
- Obsolete form of mandarin (“Chinese bureaucrat”).
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Nominalization of orange mandarine, from Portuguese mandarim.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑ̃.da.ʁin/
- Rhymes: -in
Audio: (file)
Noun
mandarine f (plural mandarines)
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:
- → 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
- feminine plural of mandarino
Noun
mandarine f pl
- plural of mandarina