From Middle English maunde, maundie, borrowed from Old French mande, borrowed from Middle Dutch mande, from Old Dutch *manda, from Proto-West Germanic *mandu.
Meanings
A wicker basket.
A unit of capacity with various specific local values.
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.
Meanings
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:
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Translations (19)
fa من (unit of mass) · ks मन् (unit of mass) · hi मन (unit of mass) · pt mane (unit of mass) · bn মন (unit of mass) · ps من (unit of mass) · ru ман (unit of mass) · akk 𒈠𒉡𒌑 (unit of mass) · ur من (unit of mass) · mr मण (unit of mass) · gu મણ (unit of mass) · ru ма́унд (unit of mass) · ne मन् (unit of mass) · as মোন (unit of mass) · ar مَنّ (unit of mass) · ml മന്ന് (unit of mass) · te మణుగు (unit of mass) · ta மடங்கு (unit of mass) · sa मान (unit of mass)
Unclear, but possibly from French mendier or quémander (“to beg”). Compare Romani mang (“to beg”).
Meanings
(archaic) 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 pads c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
(obsolete) To mutter; to mumble or speak incoherently; to maunder.