mun

From Old Norse man (“must, will”).[1]

• maun

mun

1. (dialectal, 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-; compare mouth

mun (plural muns)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) 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. (Britain, dialectal) man

Clipping of mundane.

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.

• roleplayer, RPer

• Num., nmu, num, num.

From Latin manus.

mun f

1. (anatomy) hand

mun

1. (colloquial) Genitive form of mä.

• minun

mun

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌿𐌽

mun

1. singular first-person present indicative of munu

From Proto-Samic *monë.

mun

1. I

• Entry 38703 in Álgu database

mun

1. Contraction of um + an.

• "mun" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔmun (“illness, pain”). Cognate with White Hmong mob.

mun 

1. pain

From Proto-Samic *monë.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmun/

mun

1. I

• Entry 36283 in Álgu database

• maun

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.

Fro mu + an.

mun

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

• mu

• 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

From English moon.

• IPA^(key): /mun/

mun

1. moon
2. month

• munde

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

• IPA^(key): /mɵn/, [mɵnː]

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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

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

From Proto-Samic *monë.

mun

1. I

• Entry 72531 in Álgu database

From English moon.

mun

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

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. month

From English moon.

mun

1. moon

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

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

mun (椚)

1. (North Central Vietnam) ashes
2. (botany) ebony

• tro; gio

mun (椚)

1. (rare, of a cat) black

   Synonym: đen

• mực
• ô

mun (plural muns)

1. moon (planetary satellite)

mun

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