မန္တလေး • (manta.le:) (Romanization: MLCTS: manta.le: • ALA-LC: man‘tale″ • BGN/PCGN: mandăle: • Okell: mañdălèi)
From the nearby Mandalay Hill (မန္တလေးတောင် (manta.le:taung)). Further etymology is unclear. A Pali origin is likely, judging from the spelling; compare Pali maṇḍala (“circle, disk, round flat surface, maṇḍala”), mandāra (“name of a mountain”).