mun

mun

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Munda languages.

• IPA^(key): /mʌn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌn

From Middle English mone (“shall, must”), from Old Norse munu (“shall, must”), from Proto-Germanic *munaną.^[1]

• maun

mun

1. (dialect, Northern English, modal auxiliary, defective) Must.
   • 1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village:

     Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense.

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-; Doublet of mouth.

mun (plural muns)

1. (obsolete, dialect) The mouth, jaw.
   • 1847, J O Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial words:

     A common cry at Coventry on Good Friday is: One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, / Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns.

mun

1. (UK, South Africa, dialectal) man

mun

1. (UK, dialect, Devon, Somerset, obsolete) them^[1]
   • 1746, Exmoor Courtship‎^[2], published 1879, page 50:

     tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun

Clipping of mundane.

mun (plural muns)

2. (roleplaying games, Internet slang) The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.

   Synonyms: roleplayer, RPer

   Hyponym: LARPer

   • 1997 October 29, Jade [username], “Re: Male dragon in need of mate ^_^”, in alt.fan.dragons‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Jade grabs a handful of brownies and nibbles on then,^[sic] trying to keep her mun from reaching right to the screen to get some […]

   • 1999 November 4, Milelarau [username], “Re: Roleplaying”, in alt.games.everquest‎^[4] (Usenet):

     Wait a sec.... You mean.. this is a GAME??
     And here I thought that nine tae five job my mun goes to everyday^[sic] was a game and Norrath was my home..

   • 2001 December 31, JamesStein, “Successfully Powering Down a Campaign”, in rec.games.frp.dnd‎^[5] (Usenet):

     Any suggestions on how to successfully turn this into a good SL, which will bring the characters back into the range of normalcy, without leaving the muns feeling deprived of everything their characters earned?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mun.

• Num., nmu, unm., num., num

From Latin manus.

mun f

1. (anatomy) hand

mun

1. (colloquial) genitive singular of mä
2. (dialectal) accusative singular of mä

• minun

mun

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌿𐌽

mun

1. singular first/third-person present indicative of munu

From Proto-Samic *monë.

mun (genitive muu)

1. I

• mun in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022), Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje‎^[6], Tromsø: UiT

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[7], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

mun

1. contraction of um +‎ an

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mun”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔmun (“illness, pain”). Cognate with White Hmong mob and Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] mb.

mun

1. pain

From Proto-Samic *monë.

Compare Inari Sami mun and Skolt Sami mon.

mun (genitive mu)

1. I
   • 1889, A. Genetz, Journal de la Société finno-ougrienne (VII), Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Kirjapainossa, page 116:

     Jos mun tåckå dzim kirdadzim Såäſt worodze Såäſt.

     If only I could fly with wings, crow's wings

• IPA^(key): /màɣà/

mun

1. first person plural personal pronoun, we

• Blench, Robert; Bulkaam, Michael (2021) An Introduction to Mantsi, a South Bauchi language of Central Nigeria. University of Cambridge.

mun

1. alternative form of mone (“shall”)

From Proto-Samic *monë.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmun/

mun

1. I

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[8], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

mun

1. present tense of muna

From Old Norse munr, from Proto-Germanic *muniz.

3=muner
4=munene

mun m (plural munen)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of mon

mun

1. inflection of munu:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present active indicative
   2. second-person singular present active imperative

Perhaps from Vietnamese (cánh) mỏng.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmun/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: mun

mun m inan (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) Mun mushroom

• mun in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mun in Polish dictionaries at PWN

mun

1. (modal auxiliary, defective) alternative form of maun
   • 1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village:

     Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

mu + an.

• IPA^(key): /mən/

mun

1. about the, about their, about my, about whom, about which
2. around the, around their, around my, around whom, around which
3. concerning the, concerning their, concerning my, concerning whom, concerning which

• Considered somewhat high register in the sense of "about, concerning"; mu dheidhinn is more commonly used in normal register.

• mu

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “mun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

From English moon.

• IPA^(key): /mun/

mun

1. moon
2. month

• munde

mun

1. romanization of 𒁵 (mun)

From Old Swedish munder, from Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-.

• IPA^(key): /mɵn/, [mɵnː]

• Audio:

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mun c

1. (anatomy) a mouth

   morgonstund har guld i mun

   the morning hour has gold in its mouth (the early bird catches the worm)

   många munnar att mätta

   many mouths to feed

   • 1991, Eva Dahlgren, “Vem tänder stjärnorna? [Who lights the stars?]”, in En blekt blondins hjärta [The Heart of a Bleached Blonde]‎^[9]:

     Det var evighetssekunder. Tre korta andetag. Hela livet vände. Vem valde? Inte jag. Jag hörde ord från mina läppar som aldrig vilat i min mun. Tankar aldrig tänkta, som nya väggar i ett rum.

     It was seconds of eternity. Three short breaths. My whole life ["the whole life" – Swedish often prefers to express possession by putting a noun in the definite instead of with a separate possessive pronoun] turned around. Who chose? Not me. I heard words from my lips that had [implied from vilat (“rested”) being supine] never rested in my mouth. Thoughts never thought, like new walls in a room.

• käft (colloquial, mildly offensive)
• limpsax (“cakehole”)
• mund (archaic)

• mun in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mun in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mun in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

mun (verbal noun amuni, Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵓⵏ)

1. (transitive) to accompany, to escort
2. (transitive) to gather, to group, to assemble
3. (intransitive) to be together (with)
4. (intransitive) to be gathered, to be grouped, to be assembled

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Proto-Berber [Term?] (“to accompany”).

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵓⵏ (mun, “to accompany”), Senhaja de Srair mun (“to accompany”), and Tarifit mun (“to gather, to accompany”).

• IPA^(key): /mun/

mun (intensive aorist ttmun, verbal noun tamunt, Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵓⵏ, Arabic spelling مون)

1. to assemble, to come together

   مقّار كولّو مانّت لمخلوقات.

   mqqar kullu mannt lmxluqat.

   even if all the creatures gather together.

2. to accompany, to go with(used with d)

   ايمون د يبّاس س السّوق.

   imun d ibbas s ssuq.

   he went to the market with his dad.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1775b

From English moon.

mun

1. moon
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:15:

     God i mekim kamap tupela bikpela lait. Bikpela em san bilong givim lait long de, na liklik em mun bilong givim lait long nait. Na God i mekim kamap ol sta tu.

     →New International Version translation

2. month

• sik mun

From English moon.

mun

1. moon

From Proto-Vietic *ɓuːɲ (“ashes”). Cognate with Muong bunh.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mun˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mun˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [mʊwŋ͡m˧˧]

mun • (門, 椚)

1. (North Central Vietnam) ashes

   Synonyms: tro, gio

2. (botany) ebony

mun • (門, 椚)

1. (of a cat, otherwise rare) black

   Synonym: đen

• mực
• ô

mun (genitive muna, plural muns)

1. moon (planetary satellite)