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).

Blend of man +‎ cunt

munt (plural munts)

1. (slang) mangina

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munt (plural munte, diminutive muntjie)

1. coin
2. mint

From Latin mōns, mōntem.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmunt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmun/

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

• amunt
• a munts

• “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, 2023
• “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, from Latin monēta.

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

• pepermunt
• muntsmaak
• muntthee

• → Indonesian: min

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

munt

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of munten
2. imperative of munten

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
    • 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

• foremunt
• muntælfen
• muntclȳse
• muntġēof
• muntland

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

From Latin mōns.

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

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