Mantri is a word of Sanskrit origin, used in Asian cultures with a Hindu tradition (even if later converted, usually to buddhism or Islam), for various public offices, from fairly humble to ministerial rank, either alone or in a pleiad of compounds. It is also the root of the westernised word Mandarin. Mandarin has a number of meanings: mandarin, a bureaucrat of Imperial China, and in the United Kingdom and Canada, by analogy, any government bureaucrat Mandarin, a group of dialects of spoken Chinese, or more specifically, its standardized dialect, Standard Mandarin Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines mandarin duck, Aix...

As their were thousands of polities in these vaste regions, these are just a few examples

Indian tradition

India

• in Satara, where the Peshwa (formally First Minister) took over political power from the nominal Monarch : Mantri was used as synonymous Sanskrit version of Waqnis (Fourth Minister)

Satara is a town and district of Maharashtra state of India. ... The Peshwa were the hereditary rulers of the Maratha empire of central India from 1713 to 1818. ...

Nepal

• Mantri: Minister of State
• Pradhan Mantri: Prime Minister (compare Pradhan)

Malay world

Malaysia

• in various constitutive sultanates, also in compounds

Brunei

Mentri (or Mantri): ministerial rank below vizier. A Vizier (وزير, sometimes also spelled Vizir, Wasir, Wazir, Wesir - grammatical vowel changes are common in many oriental languages) is an oriental, originally Persian, term for a high-ranking political (and sometimes religious) advisor or Minister, often to a Muslim monarch such as a Caliph, Amir, Malik (king) or Sultan. ...

Indonesia

• in Bululeng Mantri occurred (rank unclear)
• in Deli the title of Tengku Perdana Mantri was created 1st February 1923 for Y.A.M. Tengku Harun al-Rashid ibni al-Marhum Sultan Ma'amun al-Rashid Perkasa 'Alam Shah, eldest brother of the Crown Prince (Sultan the next year) and Wakil of Bedagai 1932
• in Kutai, Perdana-mantri was the first great Officer of state, or Chief Minister
• in Sambas, Radin Mantri was a highl stles for princes of the blood, e.g. borne by H.H. Sri Paduka al-Sultan Tuanku 'Abu Bakar Taj ud-din I [al-Marhum Janggut] ibni al-Marhum Sultan 'Umar Akam ud-din, future Sultan of Sambas, before his accession on the death of his father, 1790

The word delicatessen designates a kind of food store. ...

Indochina

In the Khmer monarchy of Cambodja, a Sanskrit title was often corrupted; e.g. Udarma Mantri to Udom Montrey

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