muna

• mun-a
• nguna, ngun-a

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *um-unah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *unah.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuʔna/ [ˈmuʔ.n̪a]
• IPA^(key): /muʔˈna/ [muʔˈn̪a]
• Hyphenation: mu‧na

mûna or mùna (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜈ)

1. Used to indicate something to be done for a moment

From Old Norse móna, from Proto-Germanic *mōmǭ. Cognate with Icelandic móna, Swedish muna.

muna f

1. mother, mama

stem=weak ''on''-stem

muna

1. stone

From Proto-Finnic *muna, from Proto-Uralic *muna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmunɑ/, [ˈmunɑ]
• Hyphenation: mu‧na
• Rhymes: -unɑ

muna (genitive muna, partitive muna)

1. egg
2. (vulgar, in the plural) balls, testicles

• “muna”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN

From Old Norse muna, from Proto-Germanic *munaną.

muna (third person singular past indicative munaði, third person plural past indicative munaðu, supine munað)

1. to keep in one's memory, remember

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

muna (third person singular past indicative munti or munaði, third person plural past indicative muntu or munaðu, supine munað)

1. to cause an obvious change or alteration
2. to have an effect, make a difference, have an impact
3. to have an influence on
4. to be sufficient or enough

• IPA^(key): /ˈmunɑ/, [ˈmunɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -unɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mu‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): mu‧na

From Proto-Finnic *muna (“egg; ? penis, testes”), from Proto-Uralic *muna (“egg; ? penis, testes”).

muna

1. egg

   Hyponym: kananmuna (“chicken egg”)

   1. ovum, egg cell

      Synonym: munasolu

   2. ovoid (something egg-shaped, used especially in compound terms with a modifier that specifies the material)

      Synonym: ovoidi

2. Meanings related to male genitalia:
   1. (vulgar) dick (penis)

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:siitin

   2. (somewhat vulgar, in the plural) testicle(s), ball(s)

      Synonyms: see kives

   3. (colloquial) guts, balls (courage)

      Synonyms: kantti, pää

      Onko sulla munaa tehdä se?

      Do you have the balls to do it?

• “muna”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

muna

1. (colloquial) essive singular of mä

   Synonym: minuna (standard language)

• Manu, manu, maun, namu

muna

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌰

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʏːna/
• Rhymes: -ʏːna

From Old Norse muna, from Proto-Germanic *munaną. Cognate with Faroese muna & English mind.

muna (preterite-present verb, third-person singular present indicative man, third-person singular past indicative mundi, supine munað)

1. to remember [with accusative]

   Ég man ekki hvað hann heitir.

   I can’t remember what his name is.

   Ég man ekki.

   I can’t remember.

Related to munur (“difference”).

muna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative munaði, supine munað)

1. (impersonal) to cause to differ (by a certain margin) [with dative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "differ" with the dative object as the subject)
2. (impersonal) to cause to make a difference [with um (+ accusative) ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "make a difference" with the prepositional object as the subject)

From Proto-Finnic *muna, from Proto-Uralic *muna. Cognates include Finnish muna and Estonian muna.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmunɑ/, [ˈmunɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmunɑ/, [ˈmunɑ]
• Rhymes: -unɑ
• Hyphenation: mu‧na

muna

1. egg
2. testicle
3. bump, swelling
4. short for maamuna
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 8:

     Kolhosaas kaivetaa munnaa.

     In the kolkhoz potatoes are harvested.

5. synonym of tuppu (“bun”)

• (bump): muhku, pahko

• (diminutive) munain

• kellit (“scrotum, testes”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 318
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[2], →ISBN, page 73

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠʊnˠə/

muna

1. alternative form of mura

muna (copular form used before consonants, form used before vowels munab)

1. alternative form of mura

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “muna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “muna”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

muna

1. Rōmaji transcription of むな

• munā (Courland)

From Proto-Finnic *muna, from Proto-Uralic *muna.

muna

1. egg

From Proto-Finnic *muna, from Proto-Uralic *muna.

muna

1. egg

From Arabic مُونَة (mūna).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.na/

muna f (plural mwejjen)

1. food provision

• mune (e infinitive)

From Old Norse munu.

muna (present tense mun, past tense munde, past participle munt, imperative mun)

1. (archaic) to be feasible or possible

• mun tru

• minne

• “muna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *munaną (“to think, consider, remember”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Old English ġemunan, Old Saxon munan, Old High German munan, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌽 (munan).

muna (singular past indicative mundi, plural past indicative mundu, past participle munaðr)

1. to remember
   • Vǫluspá, verse 2, lines 1-2, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:

     Ek man jötna / ár um borna, […]

     I remember giants / born long ago, […]

• Faroese: muna
• Icelandic: muna

• munu

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “muna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

muna

1. inflection of munir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

muna

1. inflection of munir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• mona — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *um-unah (“go first”). Equivalent to apheresis of um- +‎ una. Alternatively, possibly from ma- +‎ una.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmuna/ [ˈmuː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: mu‧na

muna (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜈ)

1. for a while; for a moment; for the time being; a minute (when the nature of the anticipated change is not expressed)

   Puwede bang tumayo ka muna?

   Can you stand up for a while?

   Teka muna.

   Wait a minute.

2. first (when the nature of the anticipated change is expressed or clearly implied)

   Bago siya mag-aral ng leksiyon, nagbabasa muna siya ng diyaryo.

   Before he studies his lessons, he reads newspapers first.

3. yet (used after negative imperatives and hortatives)

   Huwag ka munang kumain.

   Don't eat yet.

   Huwag muna tayong umalis.

   Let's not leave yet.

muna (complete nuna, progressive nununa, contemplative uuna, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜈ) (obsolete)

1. alternative form of umuna: to go first; to go ahead

   Muna ka na.

   You go ahead.

• “muna”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*unah”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Schachter, Paul, Otanes, Fe T. (1972) A Tagalog Reference Grammar, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 424

From Proto-Finnic *muna, from Proto-Uralic *muna.

muna

1. egg

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “яйцо”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *muna, from Proto-Uralic *muna.

muna (genitive muna, partitive munna)

1. egg

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Finnic *muna, from Proto-Uralic *muna.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmunɑ/, [ˈmunɑ]
• Rhymes: -unɑ
• Hyphenation: mu‧na

muna

1. egg

• maamuna

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

• muuna (Brazil)

• IPA^(key): [muna]

muna

1. the boto or Amazon River dolphin, Inia geoffrensis

• → Sanumá: mõna^[1]

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “muuna”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[4], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “muna”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[5] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[6], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 189: “muna”