mandar

From Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”).

mandar (first-person singular indicative present mando, past participle mandáu)

1. to order
2. to send
3. to rule, govern, be in charge
4. to offer (money)
5. to transfer

mandar inan

1. apron

Inherited from Latin mandāre.

mandar

1. to call

2=mand
5=haveir

• mandar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

From Old Galician-Portuguese mandar, from Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”).

• IPA^(key): /manˈdaɾ/

mandar (first-person singular present mando, first-person singular preterite mandei, past participle mandado)

1. to order, command

   Synonym: ordenar

2. to govern, rule; to be in power

   Manda moito o moucho no seu souto (humoristic proverb, attested since the 16th century) ― The little owl rules strongly in his copse

3. (law) to bequeath

   Synonyms: dispoñer, outorgar, testar

   • 1348, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 308:

     Mando a o capellan da capella de sam fruytoso. os panos que trouxer de cotio cerame et pellote et saya. et o meu tabardo agoadeyro

     I bequeath to the chaplain of the chapel of Saint Fructuosus my daily clothes, cloak and garment and robe, and my water overcoat

4. to send

   Synonym: enviar

5. to throw

   Synonyms: arrebolar, tirar

6. to hit

   Synonyms: dar, meter

• manda
• mandado

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mandar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mandar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mandar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mandar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mandar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “mandar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

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• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmandar/ [ˈman.dar]
• Rhymes: -andar
• Syllabification: man‧dar

mandar (plural mandar-mandar)

1. rail (Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.)

• “mandar” 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.

Inherited from Old Spanish mandar, from Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”).

mandar (Hebrew spelling מאנדאר)^[1]

1. (ditransitive, transitive) to send (make something, such as an object or message, go from one place to another, or to someone)

   Synonym: embiar

   • 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, chapter 22, in Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, editors, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[1], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 227:

     Despues de pokos dias, mandaron el direktor, el kual se yamava Musyu Maks.

     After a few days they sent the director whose name was Musyu Maks.

mandar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of mandō

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.dar/

mandar m (plural mnadar)

1. alternative form of mandra: mess, disorder

From Old Occitan mandar, from Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”).

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mandar

1. to send

   Synonym: enviar

Inherited from Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”).

mandar

1. (ditransitive, transitive) to send (make something, such as an object or message, go from one place to another, or to someone)
   • 1362, Andrés Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII a XVI, page 116:

     mando mj̃a alma a Deus padre que a ffezo et a criou aa sua ymagen et asua semeldũe.

     I send my soul to God the Father, who made it and created it in His image and likeness.

   • 1462, J. García Oro, “Viveiro en los siglos XIV y XV. La Colección Diplomática de Santo Domingo de Viveiro”, in Estudios Mindonienses, number 3, page 109:

     Iten mando a Triidade de sacar cativos de terra de mouros çincuenta maravedis.

     Item, I send fifty maravedis to the Trinity for releasing captives from the land of the Moors.

• Galician: mandar
• Portuguese: mandar

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mandar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mandar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “mandar”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

From Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”). Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French mander.

mandar

1. to send
2. to order; to command

• demandar

• Occitan: mandar

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mandāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 148 (pp. 148-9)

Inherited from Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”).

mandar

1. (ditransitive, transitive) to send (make something, such as an object or message, go from one place to another, or to someone)

   Synonym: enbiar

   • 1465, F. Iuanetin Niño, A la Sereniſsima Infanta Sor Margarita de la Cruz en razón del interrogatorio en la causa de la Virgen Sor Maria de San Joseph Abadesa en Salamanca‎^[2], F. de Rosales, page 34:

     Mandò el medico que me diſſen ſudores, […]

     She sent the physician as they might have been making me sweat.

2. to order (command)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 22v:

     Mando el nr̃o ſeñor amoẏſen q̃ tremetiesſe eſpias atiera de chanaan por barũtar q̃ tr̃a era

     Our Lord ordered Moses to send spies to the land of Canaan to get a sense of what [kind of] land it was.

   • 1443, Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, chapter XV, in Cvruiosa y Ocvlta Filosofia. Primera, y Segvnda Parte de las marauillas de las naturaleza, examinadas en varias queſtiones naturales.‎^[3], page 375:

     […] y mandar algun pueblo mayor, ò menor.

     And command some greater or smaller people.

• Ladino: mandar, מאנדאר
• Spanish: mandar

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “mandar”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 323

• mãdar (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese mandar, from Latin mandāre (“to order, to commission”).

• Hyphenation: man‧dar

mandar (first-person singular present mando, first-person singular preterite mandei, past participle mandado)

1. (transitive) to order, command

   Synonyms: comandar, ordenar

2. (transitive) to tell to do something (may or may not have a commanding tone)

   Synonym: pedir

3. (intransitive) to order, to boss around [with em ‘someone’]

   Ninguém manda em mim. ― Nobody orders me around.

4. (transitive) to send

   Synonym: enviar

   Você sabe quem mandou estas flores? ― Do you know who sent these flowers?

5. (transitive) to throw

   Synonyms: (informal) amandar, arremessar, (Brazil) jogar

6. (intransitive) to be in power; to be the boss

   Sou eu quem manda aqui! ― I'm the one in charge here.

• mandar ver
• mandar bala

• “mandar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish mandar, from Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”).

• IPA^(key): /manˈdaɾ/ [mãn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: man‧dar

mandar (first-person singular present mando, first-person singular preterite mandé, past participle mandado)

1. (transitive) to send

   Synonym: enviar

2. (transitive) to order

   Synonym: ordenar

   me mandó a disparar

   He ordered me to fire

3. (intransitive) to lead, be in charge, command

   Synonym: liderar

4. (reflexive, of rooms) to enjoin
5. (dance) to lead

   Synonym: guiar

• “mandar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”).

mandar

1. (transitive) to send

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• comandar