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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind +‎ -er.

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Noun

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minder (plural minders)

  1. One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
    • 2013 September 25, Neal Ungerleider, “Put On A Helmet, And You’re In The Story: Why Virtual Reality Journalism Is The Future”, in Fast Company‎[2], archived from the original on 26 May 2020:
      With the bulky, heavy helmet for the film strapped on, I was inside a fully immersive virtual world. With de la Peña playing minder and holding a tether which prevented me from bumping into walls, I somehow ended up inside the news story.
  2. (UK) A personal bodyguard.
  3. A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
    • 1982, Paul Eddy, Magnus Linklater, Peter Gillman, The Falklands War, page 212:
      The twenty-eight journalists who sailed with the task force were accompanied by seven censors or 'minders' from the MoD, as well as by military press officers attached to each unit.
    • 2005, Roger V. Seifert, Tom Sibley, United They Stood: The Story of the UK Firefighters' Dispute 2002-4, Lawrence & Wishart Limited:
      Once again the employers, now closely gripped by Central Government minders, offered 4 % now and 7 % in one year's time, and all tied to modernisation. This was not what the FBU had bargained for. So the strike started.
    • 2008, Poor George's Almanac: A 2008 Calendar, →ISBN, page 101:
      Pieter Tans, a 20-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employee, was told not to use the phrase 'climate change' in paper titles and abstracts for the Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference. When an official flew in from Washington to be present for an interview Tans gave to the BBC, Mr. Tans wondered why a U.S. government “minder”, reminiscent of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, was required.
    • 2009, Thomas Rid, Marc Hecker, War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age, page 83:
      Rear Admiral John Woodward, the operational commander, summarized the instructions to the six MoD minders as “co-operation, yes; information, no.”
    • 2010 Oct, Tim Butcher, “Our Man in Liberia”, in History Today, volume 60, number 10, pages 10–17:
      Throughout Greene's writing he repeatedly refers to dodging government control in Liberia, first by entering the country incognito and then by completing his journey without government minders.
    • 2015, Tony Harcup, Journalism: Principles and Practice, SAGE, →ISBN, page 79:
      […] some other journalists were becoming "embedded" with the military as one way of reporting from the front: living with the military, […] and reporting under military restrictions. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, embedded reporters tended to adopt the perspective of their hosts and minders, as US journalist Gordon Dillow later admitted […]
    • 2016 May 11, Anna Fifield, “I went to North Korea and was told I ask too many questions”, in The Washington Post‎[3], archived from the original on 16 April 2017:
      Was she really ill? Was she really a patient? We will never know. Suddenly, it was time to go and our minders were herding us back onto the bus.
  4. (obsolete) One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.

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Crimean Tatar

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مندر (minder).

Noun

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minder

  1. mattress
    Synonyms: şilte, töşek

Declension

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Declension of minder
singular plural
nominative minder minderler
genitive minderniñ minderlerniñ
dative minderge minderlerge
accusative minderni minderlerni
locative minderde minderlerde
ablative minderden minderlerden

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Danish

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Noun

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minder

  1. indefinite plural of minde

Verb

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minder

  1. present of minde

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch minre, from Old Dutch minniro, from Proto-Germanic *minnizô, comparative of adjective deriving from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”).

Determiner

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minder

  1. comparative degree of weinig; less; fewer

Adverb

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minder

  1. comparative degree of weinig; less
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Adjective

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minder (not comparable)

  1. worse, not as good
    De aardappelen waren heerlijk, maar de biefstuk was minder.
    The potatoes were delicious, but the steak was not as good.
  2. less fortunate
    We hebben de wedstrijd gewonnen, maar ik heb wel mijn enkel verzwikt, dus dat is minder.
    We won the competition, but I did sprain my ankle, so that's less fortunate.
Declension
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Declension of minder
uninflected minder
inflected mindere
comparative —
positive
predicative/adverbial minder
indefinite m./f. sing. mindere
n. sing. minder
plural mindere
definite mindere
partitive minders
Descendants
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  • Negerhollands: minder
  • → Aukan: mendii

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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minder

  1. inflection of minderen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German minder, minner, minre, from Old High German minniro, from Proto-Germanic *minnizô, comparative of adjective deriving from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”). Originally the comparative form of min, of which the superlative is mindesten.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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minder

  1. (now formal) comparative degree of wenig
  2. (now formal) comparative degree of gering

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “minder” in Duden online
  • “minder”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[4] (in German)

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Clipping of minderwaardig (“insecure”), from Dutch minderwaardig (“inferior, third-rate”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪn.dər/
  • Hyphenation: min‧dêr

Adjective

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minder (comparative lebih minder, superlative paling minder)

  1. (colloquial) feeling inferior due to low self-esteem, insecure
    Synonym: rendah diri

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Same as mindre (“less”).

Conjunction

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minder

  1. (rare) unless
    Synonym: med mindre

Adverb

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minder

  1. (rare) else, otherwise
    Synonym: elles

References

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Anagrams

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish مندر (minder).

Noun

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minder m inan (Cyrillic spelling миндер)

  1. mat
  2. cushion
  3. divan (furniture)

Declension

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Declension of minder
singular plural
nominative minder minderi
genitive mindera mindera
dative minderu minderima
accusative minder mindere
vocative mindere minderi
locative minderu minderima
instrumental minderom minderima

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish مندر (minder),[1] from Persian نیمدار (nimdâr, “outworn but still useful garment”).[2]

Cognates include Albanian minder, Bulgarian миндер (minder), Macedonian миндер (minder), Romanian mindir, Serbo-Croatian миндер.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /minˈdeɾ/
  • Hyphenation: min‧der

Noun

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minder (definite accusative minderi, plural minderler)

  1. A type of cushion or mattress for sitting or lying on.
  2. (sports) mat

Declension

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Declension of minder
singular plural
nominative minder minderler
definite accusative minderi minderleri
dative mindere minderlere
locative minderde minderlerde
ablative minderden minderlerden
genitive minderin minderlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular plural
1st singular minderim minderlerim
2nd singular minderin minderlerin
3rd singular minderi minderleri
1st plural minderimiz minderlerimiz
2nd plural minderiniz minderleriniz
3rd plural minderleri minderleri
definite accusative
singular plural
1st singular minderimi minderlerimi
2nd singular minderini minderlerini
3rd singular minderini minderlerini
1st plural minderimizi minderlerimizi
2nd plural minderinizi minderlerinizi
3rd plural minderlerini minderlerini
dative
singular plural
1st singular minderime minderlerime
2nd singular minderine minderlerine
3rd singular minderine minderlerine
1st plural minderimize minderlerimize
2nd plural minderinize minderlerinize
3rd plural minderlerine minderlerine
locative
singular plural
1st singular minderimde minderlerimde
2nd singular minderinde minderlerinde
3rd singular minderinde minderlerinde
1st plural minderimizde minderlerimizde
2nd plural minderinizde minderlerinizde
3rd plural minderlerinde minderlerinde
ablative
singular plural
1st singular minderimden minderlerimden
2nd singular minderinden minderlerinden
3rd singular minderinden minderlerinden
1st plural minderimizden minderlerimizden
2nd plural minderinizden minderlerinizden
3rd plural minderlerinden minderlerinden
genitive
singular plural
1st singular minderimin minderlerimin
2nd singular minderinin minderlerinin
3rd singular minderinin minderlerinin
1st plural minderimizin minderlerimizin
2nd plural minderinizin minderlerinizin
3rd plural minderlerinin minderlerinin

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References

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  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مندر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1998
  2. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “minder”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

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  • “minder”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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