Where does “măng-đô-lin” come from?

măng-đô-lin (Vietnamese) comes from French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, from Italian mandola, from Latin pandura, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα — pandura, a three-stringed lute.

măng-đô-lin (Vietnamese): a mandolin

Definitions

  1. a mandolin

Ancestry of “măng-đô-lin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmandolinemandolin; vegetable slicer, mandoline
2Italianmandolinomandolin
3Italianmandolamandola
4Latinpanduraa pandore
5Ancient Greekπανδοῦραpandura, a three-stringed lute
Every word from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα →