maund
/mɔːnd/US/mɔnd/
maund noun: a wicker basket.
Noun (1)
maund (plural maunds)
- A wicker basket.
- A unit of capacity with various specific local values.
- A handbasket with two lids.
Noun (2)
maund (plural maunds)
- A unit of weight in south and west Asia, whose value varies widely by location.
- Now the rail has come, and the fire-carriage says buz-buz-buz, and a hundred lakhs of maunds slide across that big bridge.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “In Flood Time”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 410
- One mann or maund is approximately 37.32 kilograms.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 146
Noun (3)
maund (uncountable)
Verb
maund (third-person singular simple present maunds, present participle maunding, simple past and past participle maunded)
- To beg.
- He maunds Abram, he begs as a madde man.c. 1608–1610, Samuel Rid, Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell
- You must hereafter maund on your own padsc. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please...
- To mutter; to mumble or speak incoherently; to maunder.
Proper noun capitalized: Maund
Maund
- A surname.
maund meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
maund in Hindi
- unit of mass
- मन man
maund in Tamil
- unit of mass
- மடங்கு maṭaṅku
maund in Marathi
- unit of mass
- मण maṇ
maund in Urdu
- unit of mass
- من man
More languagesFewer languages
- maund in Bengali
- মন mon
- maund in Telugu
- మణుగు maṇugu
- maund in Malayalam
- മന്ന് mannŭ
- maund in Gujarati
- મણ maṇ
- maund in Sanskrit
- मान māna
- maund in Assamese
- মোন mün
- maund in Nepali
- मन् man
- maund in Pashto
- من man
- maund in Arabic
- مَنّ mann
- maund in Persian
- من man
- Kashmiri
- मन् man
Forms of maund
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | maunds |
| alternative form | mand |
| alternative Scotland | mande |
| alternative Scotland | mawn |
| alternative Scotland | mond |
| alternative form | mun |
| alternative form | man |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | maunds |
| present participle | maunding |
| past participle | maunded |
| past | maunded |
Origin of maund
From Middle English maunde, maundie, borrowed from Old French mande, borrowed from Middle Dutch mande, from Old Dutch *manda, from Proto-West Germanic *mandu.
From Hindi मन (man) / Urdu من (man), and their source, Persian من, from Middle Persian, from Akkadian 𒈠𒉡𒌑 (manû). The -d is probably from assimilation with Etymology 1 above, or from comparison with pound.
Unclear, but possibly from French mendier or quémander (“to beg”). Compare Romani mang (“to beg”).
Words formed from maund
Words that rhyme with maund
Questions about maund
- What does maund mean?
- Maund means a wicker basket.
- What is maund in Hindi?
- Maund in Hindi is मन (man). See Maund meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is maund?
- Maund can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce maund?
- Maund is pronounced /mɔːnd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of maund?
- The plural of maund is maunds.
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