different between naartjie vs mandarine

English

Alternative forms

• naartje
• nartjie

Etymology

From Tamil ??????? (n?rattai, “citron”) through Afrikaans. Has been used in South Africa since 1790. Appearing in English as naartje in 1901, in this spelling by Lawrence Green in Tavern of the Seas, 1947.

Noun

naartjie (plural naartjies)

1. (South Africa) Citrus reticulata (mandarin, satsuma, tangerine); a soft, loose-skinned tangerine.

References

• Jean Branford: A dictionary of South African English. Oxford 1978.
• Google Language Tools.

Afrikaans

Noun

naartjie (plural naartjies, diminutive naartjietjie)

1. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of nartjie

English

Noun

mandarine (plural mandarines)

1. Alternative spelling of mandarin (in the term "mandarin orange")

Anagrams

• meandrian, meandrina

French

Etymology

Nominalization of orange mandarine, from Portuguese mandarim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.da.?in/

Noun

mandarine f (plural mandarines)

1. mandarin orange

Derived terms

• mandarinier

Descendants

In some languages, spelling may be derive from Portuguese mandarim, but meaning from French.

• ? Albanian: mandarinë
• ? Armenian: ???????? (mandarin)
• ? Azerbaijani: mandarin
• ? Basque: mandarina
• ? Belarusian: ???????? (mandaryn)
• ? Bulgarian: ????????? (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: ????????? (mantaríni)
• ? Kyrgyz: ???????? (mandarin)
• ? Macedonian: ????????? (mandarina)
• ? Low German: Mandarien
• ? Maori: manarini
• ? Norwegian: mandarin
• ? Persian: ????????? (mândârin)
• ? Polish: mandarynka (with diminutive suffix -ka)
• ? Romanian: mandarin?
• ? Russian: ???????? (mandarin)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ?????????
  • Latin: mandarina
• ? Slovene: mandarínka (with diminutive suffix -ka)
• ? Spanish: mandarina
• ? Swedish: mandarin
• ? Tajik: ???????? (mandarin)
• ? Turkmen: mandarin
• ? Ukrainian: ???????? (mandaryn)
• ? Uzbek: mandarin
• ? Wolof: màndarin
• ? Yiddish: ??????????? (mandarin)

Further reading

• “mandarine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

mandarine

1. feminine plural of mandarino

Noun

mandarine f pl

1. plural of mandarina

Anagrams

• mandriane