munt

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mʌnt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Probably derived from Northern Ndebele umuntu, with stress on the first syllable, which is uncommon for Nguni languages.

munt (plural munts)

1. (Rhodesia, slang, originally military, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person, usually a man.
   • 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 22:

     My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even.

   • 2006, Geoffrey Nyarota, Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman, Zebra Press, page 63:

     Munt was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks.

Related to munted; see there for more.

munt (third-person singular simple present munts, present participle munting, simple past and past participle munted)

1. (Australia, slang) To vomit (usually while drunk).
2. (slang) To engage in the act of munting.

Blend of man +‎ cunt

munt (plural munts)

1. (slang) mangina

munt (plural munts)

1. (New Zealand, slang, used by schoolchildren) Something or someone dumb or annoying.

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munt (plural munte, diminutive muntjie)

1. coin
2. mint

Inherited from Latin mōntem.

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munt m (plural munts)

1. (also figurative) heap

   un munt de… ― a heap (of things)

   N'hi ha un munt ― there is a lot (of it)

2. (archaic or toponyms) Synonym of muntanya

• “munt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “munt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “munt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /mʏnt/

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• Hyphenation: munt
• Rhymes: -ʏnt

From Middle Dutch munte, from Old Dutch munita, from late Proto-West Germanic *munit (“coin”).

munt f (plural munten, diminutive muntje n)

1. coin

   Synonym: muntstuk

2. currency

   Synonym: munteenheid

3. tails (side of a coin)

   Antonyms: kop, kruis

4. mint (institution)

• Negerhollands: mynt

From Middle Dutch mente, minte, from Latin mentha.

munt f (plural munten, diminutive muntje n)

1. mint (plant), of genus Mentha
2. (chiefly diminutive) confection flavored with mint

• aarmunt
• akkermunt
• dwergmunt
• edelmunt
• groene munt
• hertsmunt
• Japanse munt
• kransmunt
• muntblad
• muntgoudhaan
• muntroest
• muntsmaak
• muntthee
• muntvlinder
• oevermunt
• pepermunt
• watermunt
• witte munt
• wollige munt

• → Indonesian: min

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

munt

1. inflection of munten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

munt

1. Alternative form of mount

munt

1. Alternative form of mounten

munt

1. Alternative form of mynt (“strike”)

From Proto-West Germanic *munþ.

munt m

1. mouth

• Middle Dutch: mont
  • Dutch: mond, mont (obsolete)
    • Afrikaans: mond
    • Javindo: mon
    • Negerhollands: mond, mon, mun, mont
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: mon, mout (dated)
    • Petjo: mon
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: mont
  • Limburgish: móndj

• “munt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Borrowed from Latin mōns, montem.

• IPA^(key): /munt/

munt m

1. a hill, mound
2. a mount or mountain
   • "Gospel of Saint Luke", chapter 4, verse 29

     And hiġ ārīson and scūfon hine of ðǣre ceastre. And lǣddon hine ofer ðæs muntes cnæpp. Ofer þone hyra buruh ġetimbrud wæs. þ hī hyne nyðer bescūfon.

     And they arose and shoved him from the city. And led him over the mount's top. Over that their city was built. That they thrusted him downward.

• foremunt
• muntælfen
• muntclȳse
• muntġēof
• muntland

• Middle English: mount, mont, mounte, mownt, munt
  • English: mount
  • Scots: munt

From Latin mōns.

munt oblique singular, m (oblique plural munz or muntz, nominative singular munz or muntz, nominative plural munt)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of mont (“mountain”)

From Latin mundus.

munt oblique singular, m (oblique plural munz or muntz, nominative singular munz or muntz, nominative plural munt)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of monde (“world”)