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menteri.

minister (politician who heads a ministry)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/məntəˈri/[mən̪.t̪əˈri]/mənˈtri/[mən̪ˈt̪ri]
  1. minister (politician who heads a ministry)

  2. queen (a chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful)

  3. bishop (the chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝)

    archaic
Where this word comes from

From Malay menteri, from Sanskrit मन्त्री (mantrī). Doublet of mandarin, manti, and mantri. The chess piece sense is a semantic loan from Arabic وزير.

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