English

lemandarin

Blend of lemon + mandarin.

Old French lymon ‘citrus’

Middle English lymon

English lemon

Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to think’

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Sanskrit मन्त्र ‘counsel, maxim, mantra’

Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् ‘minister, councillor’

Malay menteri

Portuguese mandarim

Today it means

noun Citrus × limonia, a citrus fruit which is a hybrid between the mandarin orange and the lemon.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / lemandarin