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mou

mou particle: sentence-final particle, forming a tag question.

Particle

mou

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial, mainly Cantonese speakers) Sentence-final particle, forming a tag question.
    • Kopitiam mou?
    • Day trip mou?

Noun (1) capitalized: MOU

MOU (plural MOUs)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of MoU.
    • “I don’t think it is possible run an effective transition without entering into the MOUs in order to get access to critical government support,” Max Stier, the president and CEO of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, told CNN. […] GSA “is prepared to provide services to...2024 November 6, Betsy Klein, “What we know about the transition so far”, in CNN
    • "I suspect the MOU may be less awful than the administration's disastrous sales pitch," Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies posted on X yesterday. (Later he conceded the deal was not better at all but, in fact, "even worse than I assumed.")2026 June 17, Jonathan Chait, “All the Sad Hawks”, in The Atlantic

Noun (2) capitalized: MoU

MoU (plural MoUs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of memorandum of understanding.
    • Mr Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, is seeking another term in the elections scheduled for later this year, with his political rivals using the MoU as a strick to beat him with before October's vote.2026 June 18, Iona Cleave et al., “How Trump's 'Operation Epic Disaster' Turned the World against America”, in The Telegraph

Proper noun capitalized: Mou

Mou (plural Mous)

  1. A surname from Chinese.

mou meaning in Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi and Gujarati

mou in Marathi

मोऊ

mou in Bengali

মোউ

mou in Punjabi

ਮੌਉ

mou in Gujarati

મોઉ

Forms of mou

Noun
pluralMOUs
pluralMoUs
alternative formMOU
alternative formM.O.U.
alternative formM. O. U.
Proper noun
pluralMous

Origin of mou

From Cantonese 冇 (mou5), also influenced by Malay mau variant of mahu (“to want”).

Borrowed from Chinese 牟 (móu).

Questions about mou

What does mou mean?
Mou means sentence-final particle, forming a tag question.
What is mou in Marathi?
Mou in Marathi is मोऊ. See Mou meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is mou?
Mou can be a particle, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near mou in the dictionary

  1. motzas
  2. Motzes
  3. Motzkin
  4. Motzkin number
  5. Motzkin numbers
  6. mou
  7. Moua
  8. mouah
  9. Mouamar
  10. Mouammar
  11. Mouammer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mou (page history and authors); MOU (page history and authors); MoU (page history and authors); Mou (page history and authors); mou (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mou (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mou (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mou (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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