mandat

See also: Mandat, mandát, and mandât

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mandātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mənˈdat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [manˈdat]
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

mandat m (plural mandats)

1. writ, warrant, order
2. mandate
3. (law) power of attorney
4. (political science) term

Derived terms

• límit de mandat
• mandatari

Related terms

• mandant

Further reading

• “mandat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mandātum, from mandō (“put in one's hands, command”), from Proto-Indo-European *man- (“hand”) + *dʰeh₁- (“put”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: man‧dat

Noun

mandat m (plural mandats)

1. mandate
2. postal order, money order
3. (law) power of attorney, proxy
4. (police) warrant
5. term (of office)
   • 1852, Constitution faite en vertu des pouvoirs délégués par le Peuple français à Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte Par le vote des 20 et 21 décembre 1851 [Constitution Made by Virtue of the Powers Delegated by the French People to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte by the Vote of 20 and 21 December 1851], Paris: Imprimerie Schneider, page 21:

     Si le président de la République meurt avant l’expiration de son mandat, le Sénat convoque la Nation pour procéder à une nouvelle élection.

     If the President of the Republic dies prior to the expiry of his term, the Senate [shall] convoke the Nation for carrying out a new election.

Derived terms

• cumul des mandats
• mandat d’arrêt
• mandat de perquisition

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: ماندا (manda)
  • Turkish: manda

Further reading

• “mandat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• damant, damnât

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch mandaat, from Middle Dutch mandaet, from Old French mandat, from Latin mandātum.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmandat/ [ˈman.dat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -andat
• Syllabification: man‧dat

Noun

mandat (plural mandat-mandat)

1. mandate (official command)
2. mandate (the authority to do something or to act)

   Synonym: wewenang

Derived terms

• mandati (“to mandate”)

Further reading

• “mandat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Ladin

Noun

mandat m (plural mandac)

1. mandate

Latin

Verb

mandat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of mandō

Malay

Noun

mandat (Jawi spelling مندت, plural mandat-mandat)

1. mandate

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mandat, from Latin mandātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.dat/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -andat
• Syllabification: man‧dat

Noun

mandat m inan (diminutive mandacik)

1. (law) ticket, fine (document prepared by the police compelling the recipient to pay a fine for a misdemeanor or a traffic violation)

   Właśnie dostałem mandat za złe parkowanie.

   I've just received a bad parking ticket.

2. (politics) seat (membership in an elected representative body, such as the parliament)

   W ostatnich wyborach nasza partia zdobyła dwadzieścia mandatów.

   In the last election our party won twenty seats.

3. (politics, rare, singular only) mandate (authority granted by the electorate)

   Rząd otrzymał silny mandat do zreformowania systemu opieki zdrowotnej.

   The government has received a strong mandate to reform the healthcare system.

Declension

Declension of mandat

	singular	plural
nominative	mandat	mandaty
genitive	mandatu	mandatów
dative	mandatowi	mandatom
accusative	mandat	mandaty
instrumental	mandatem	mandatami
locative	mandacie	mandatach
vocative	mandacie	mandaty

Derived terms

adjective

• mandatowy

nouns

• mandatariusz
• mandatariuszka

verbs

• złożyć mandat pf, składać mandat impf

Related terms

adjective

• mandatariuszowski

Further reading

• mandat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mandat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mandat.

Noun

mandat n (plural mandate)

1. mandate

Declension

Declension of mandat

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mandat	mandatul		mandate	mandatele
genitive-dative	mandat	mandatului		mandate	mandatelor
vocative	mandatule			mandatelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎndaːt/
• Hyphenation: man‧dat

Noun

màndāt m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀нда̄т)

1. mandate
2. term (of office)

Declension

Declension of mandat

	singular	plural
nominative	màndāt	mandati
genitive	mandáta	mandata
dative	mandatu	mandatima
accusative	mandat	mandate
vocative	mandate	mandati
locative	mandatu	mandatima
instrumental	mandatom	mandatima

Swedish

Noun

mandat n

1. mandate

Declension

Declension of mandat

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mandat	mandats
	definite	mandatet	mandatets
plural	indefinite	mandat	mandats
	definite	mandaten	mandatens

Further reading

• mandat in Svensk ordbok.

Welsh

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of English mandate.

Adjective

mandat (feminine singular mandat, plural mandat, not comparable)

1. Alternative form of mandad (“mandate”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of mandat

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mandat	fandat	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mandat”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies