English

Alternative forms

• maun

Verb

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.

References

1. ↑ “mun”, in the Collins English Dictionary (CollinsDictionary.com).

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Etymology 3

Short for mundane.

Noun

mun ‎(plural muns)

1. (role-playing games, Internet slang) The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.
   • 1997 October 29, Jade [username], “Re: Male dragon in need of mate ^_^”, in alt.fan.dragons, 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, Usenet:

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

   • 2001 December 31, JamesStein, “Sucessfully Powering Down a Campaign”, in rec.games.frp.dnd, 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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:mun.

Synonyms

• roleplayer, RPer

Anagrams

• Num., num

Akkala Sami

Pronoun

munˑ

1. I (first-person singular pronoun, essive)

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin manus.

Noun

mun f

1. hand

Finnish

Pronoun

mun

1. (colloquial) Genitive form of minä.

See also

• minun

Gothic

Romanization

mun

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌿𐌽

Inari Sami

Pronoun

mun

1. (personal) I

Lojban

Rafsi

mun

1. rafsi of smuni.

Northern Sami

Etymology

Compare Lule Sami mån and Southern Sami manne

Pronoun

mun

1. I

Inflection

See also

Scots

Alternative forms

• maun

Verb

mun

1. (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.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

mu + an

Preposition

mun

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

See also

• mu

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɵn/, [mɵnː]

Noun

mun c

1. (anatomy) a mouth

   morgonstund har guld i mun

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

   många munnar att mätta

   many mouths to feed

Declension

Related terms

References

• mun in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English moon.

Noun

mun

1. moon
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:15 (translation here):

     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.

2. month

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English moon.

Noun

mun

1. moon

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *ɓuːɲ ‎(“ashes”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mun˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mun˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mʊwŋ͡m˧˥]

Noun

mun ‎(椚)

1. ashes
2. (botany) ebony

Synonyms

• tro; gio

Adjective

mun ‎(椚)

1. (color, of a cat) black

Synonyms

• đen

See also

• mực
• ô

Volapük

Noun

mun ‎(plural muns)

1. moon (planetary satellite)

Declension

Welsh

Noun

mun

1. (slang) equivalent to the man in English, as in you, you man, you bloke, dude, guy, mate