mantri
/ˈmantri/(also muntree)
noun
In South and South-East Asia: any of various functionaries or officials; specifically (in the former Malay states) a minister or local chieftain; (in Indonesia, including the former Dutch East Indies) a minor official or subordinate functionary vested with some authority.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Theodosius Forrest (c1728–1784), lawyer and songwriter. From Sanskrit mantrī, nominative singular of mantrin counsellor, minister from man- to think.
- punctuationalist
- punctuationism
- punctuationist
- punctuation mark
- thespianism
- the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- the spirit of the Blitz
- the spirit world
- Thespis
- the sport of kings
- the Springboks
- Thess.
- Thessalian
- Thessalonians, Epistle to the
- Thessalonica
- Thessaloníki
- Thessaly
- the staff of life
- the States
- the sterner sex
- the stone end
- the story goes
- the straight and narrow
- the straight wire
- the Street