mandarin orange

See also: Mandarin orange

English

mandarin oranges

Alternative forms

• mandarine orange, Mandarin orange

Pronunciation

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Noun

mandarin orange (plural mandarin oranges)

1. A small citrus tree (Citrus reticulata) with oblate fruits smaller than the (so-named) sweet oranges.

   Synonyms: mandarin (by ellipsis), tangerine (broadly synonymous)

2. The fruit of this tree; in loose, informal usage, the term may include other similar citrus fruits such as Citrus unshiu (satsuma or mikan).

   Synonyms: mandarin (by ellipsis), tangerine (broadly synonymous)

   Hyponyms: satsuma, tangerine

Usage notes

Some speakers use a stricter sense of the noun tangerine that is hyponymous.

Translations

fruit

• Afrikaans: nartjie (af)
• Albanian: mandarinë (sq) f
• Arabic: يُوسُفِيّ (ar) m (yūsufiyy), يُوسُف أَفَنْدِي (ar) m (yūsuf ʔafandī)

  Egyptian Arabic: يوستفندي m pl (yustafandi), يستفندية f (yustafandia), يستفندياية f (yustafandiaia), سفندية f (safandeya)

  Hijazi Arabic: يوسف أفندي m (yūsif ʔafandi), أفندي m (ʔafandi)

  Moroccan Arabic: مندرينة f (mandarīna)

  South Levantine Arabic: مندلينا f (mandalīna)

• Armenian: մանդարին (hy) (mandarin)
• Asturian: mandarina (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: mandarin, naringi (az)
• Basque: mandarina (eu), mandarinondo (eu)
• Belarusian: мандары́н m (mandarýn)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: мандари́на (bg) f (mandarína)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: mandarina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: ^{(please verify)} 桔 (gat¹), ^{(please verify)} 桔仔 (gat¹ zai²)

  Mandarin: 蜜柑 (zh) (mìgān), 桔子 (zh) (júzi)

• Crimean Tatar: mandarin
• Czech: mandarinka (cs) f
• Danish: mandarin (da) c
• Dutch: mandarijn (nl) m
• Esperanto: mandarino
• Estonian: mandariin
• Faroese: mandarin f
• Finnish: mandariini (fi)
• French: mandarine (fr) f
• Georgian: მანდარინი (mandarini)
• German: Mandarine (de) f
• Greek: μανταρίνι (el) n (mantaríni)
• Gujarati: નારંગી f (nāraṅgī)
• Hebrew: מַנדָרִין m (mandarin)
• Hindi: नारंगी (hi) f (nāraṅgī), मैंडरिन f (maiṇḍrin)
• Hungarian: mandarin (hu)
• Icelandic: mandarína (is) f
• Ido: mandarino (io)
• Indonesian: jeruk keprok (id)
• Irish: mandairín m
• Italian: mandarino (it) m
• Japanese: 蜜柑 (ja) (mikan)
• Kalmyk: тошл (toşl)
• Kazakh: мандарин (mandarin)
• Khmer: ក្រូចយួន (krooc yuən)
• Korean: 귤 (ko) (gyul), 밀감(蜜柑) (ko) (milgam)
• Kyrgyz: мандарин (ky) (mandarin)
• Lao: ສົ້ມລົດ (som lot), ສົ້ມຮົດ (som hot)
• Latvian: mandarīns m
• Lithuanian: mandarinas m
• Low German: Mandarien f
• Macedonian: мандари́на (mk) f (mandarína)
• Malay: limau mandarin (ms)
• Maltese: mandolina f
• Maori: manarini
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nahuatl: otonlalaxtli (nah)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mandarin (no)

• Occitan: mandarina (oc) f
• Persian: نارنگی (fa) (nârengi), ماندارین (mândârin)
• Polish: mandarynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tangerina (pt) f, (Brazil) bergamota (pt) f, (Brazil) mexerica (pt) f, (Brazil) mimosa (pt) f
• Romanian: mandarină (ro) f
• Russian: мандари́н (ru) m (mandarín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мандарина f, тангерина f

  Roman: mandarina (sh) f, tangerina (sh) f

• Sicilian: mannarinu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: දොඩම් (si) (doḍam)
• Slovak: mandarínka (sk) f
• Slovene: mandarinovec m
• Spanish: mandarina (es) f
• Swedish: mandarin (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalanghita, naranghita
• Tajik: норанг (norang), мандарин (mandarin)
• Thai: ส้มแมนดาริน (sôm maen-daa-rin), ส้มจีน (sôm jiin)
• Tigrinya: መንደሪኒ (mändärini)
• Turkish: mandalina (tr)
• Turkmen: mandarin
• Ukrainian: мандари́н m (mandarýn)
• Uzbek: mandarin (uz)
• Vietnamese: quýt (vi)
• Wolof: màndarin
• Yiddish: מאַנדאַרין (mandarin)

tree

• Asturian: mandarinal (ast) f
• Basque: mandarinondo (eu)
• Catalan: mandariner m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桔子樹 / 桔子树 (júzi shù)

• Czech: mandarinkovník m
• Dutch: mandarijnenboom m
• Esperanto: mandarinarbo, mandarinujo
• Estonian: mandariinipuu
• Finnish: mandariini (fi), mandariinipuu
• French: mandarinier (fr) m
• Georgian: [script needed] (mandarini)
• German: Mandarine (de) f
• Greek: μανταρινιά (el) f (mantariniá)
• Gujarati: નારંગી f (nāraṅgī)
• Hungarian: mandarin (hu)
• Ido: mandariniero (io)
• Irish: crann mandairíní m
• Italian: mandarino (it) m
• Japanese: 蜜柑 (ja) (mikan)
• Kalmyk: тошл (toşl)
• Korean: 귤나무 (gyullamu), 밀감(蜜柑) (ko) (milgam)
• Latvian: mandarīns m
• Macedonian: мандари́на (mk) f (mandarína)
• Maltese: mandolina f
• Polish: mandarynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tangerineira (pt) f, (Brazil) bergamoteira f, (Brazil) mexeriqueira (pt) f,
• Romanian: mandarin (ro) m
• Russian: мандари́н (ru) m (mandarín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мандарина f, тангерина f

  Roman: mandarina (sh) f, tangerina (sh) f

• Sicilian: mannarina f
• Slovak: mandarínkovník m
• Slovene: mandarina (sl) f
• Spanish: mandarino (es) m
• Swedish: mandarinträd n
• Turkish: mandalina (tr)
• Vietnamese: quýt (vi)

Further reading

• mandarin orange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia