menteri

From Malay menteri, from Sanskrit मन्त्री (mantrī). Doublet of mandarin, manti, and mantri.

• IPA^(key): [məntəˈri], [mənˈtri]
• Hyphenation: men‧te‧ri

mêntêri (plural menteri-menteri, first-person possessive menteriku, second-person possessive menterimu, third-person possessive menterinya)

1. (government) minister, a politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).

   Synonym: nayaka

2. (chess) queen: the most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

   Synonyms: ratu, ster

3. (chess) bishop: the chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.

   Synonyms: gajah, luncup, loper

• manti
• mentri

• “menteri” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Hindi मन्त्रि (mantri), from Sanskrit मन्त्री (mantrī), from Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, “an agent suffix”).

mĕntĕri (Jawi spelling منتري‎, plural menteri-menteri, informal 1st possessive menteriku, 2nd possessive menterimu, 3rd possessive menterinya)

1. minister, vizier
   • 1812, Marsden, William, A Dictionary of the Malayan language in two parts, Malayan and English and English and Malayan‎, OCLC 807179629, page 2:

     Pada sūltan atau pada mantrī-nia

     To the sultan or to his ministers

• perdana menteri

• Indonesian: menteri
• → Portuguese: mandarim
  • → Czech: mandarín
  • → Danish: mandarin
  • → Dutch: mandarijn
    • Afrikaans: mandaryn
    • → Latvian: mandarīns (or from Portuguese mandarim, or via another European language)
  • → English: mandarin
    • → Irish: mandairín
  • → Estonian: mandariin (or possibly from French mandarine)
  • → French: mandarin
    • → Breton: mandarin
    • → Greek: μανδαρίνος (mandarínos)
  • → French: mandarine (“mandarin orange”) (see there for further descendants)
  • → German: Mandarin
    • → Hungarian: mandarin
  • → Italian: mandarino
    • → Maltese: mandolin
    • → Turkish: mandalina
  • → Latvian: mandarīns (or from Dutch mandarijn, or via another European language)
  • → Macedonian: мандарин (mandarin)
  • → Polish: mandaryn
  • → Romanian: mandarin
  • → Russian: мандарин (mandarin)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: мандарин
    • Latin: mandarin
  • → Spanish: mandarín
    • → Crimean Tatar: mandarin
  • → Swedish: mandarin

• “menteri” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.