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mohn

/mʊn/

mohn noun: a sweet pastry filling made of poppy seed paste, especially used in Central or Eastern European baked goods such as hamantaschen.

Noun

mohn (uncountable)

  1. A sweet pastry filling made of poppy seed paste, especially used in Central or Eastern European baked goods such as hamantaschen.

Proper noun capitalized: Mohn

Mohn (plural Mohns)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of mohn

pluralMohns

Origin of mohn

Borrowed from German Mohn or Yiddish מאָן (mon).

From the German surname: * from the noun Mohn (“poppy”), * also from the old personal name Monrad, composed of the elements *mundiz (“thought, mind, spirit”) and *rēdaz (“counsel”), * also a variant of Moehn, from Möhn near Trier.

Questions about mohn

What does mohn mean?
Mohn means a sweet pastry filling made of poppy seed paste, especially used in Central or Eastern European baked goods such as hamantaschen.
What part of speech is mohn?
Mohn can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mohn?
Mohn is pronounced /mʊn/.

Words near mohn in the dictionary

  1. Mohmand
  2. Mohmands
  3. Mohmed
  4. Mohmmad
  5. Mohmmed
  6. mohn
  7. Mohney
  8. Mohneys
  9. Mohnian
  10. Mohns
  11. moho

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