a varying unit of weight of certain countries of Asia; esp., a unit of weight of India equal to 40 seers (82.28 lb or 37.35 kg)
Origin of maund
Hindi and Persian man from Sanskrit man?, probably from Semiticmaund
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maund
noun
A unit of weight varying in different countries of Asia from 11.2 to 37.4 kilograms (24.8 to 82.6 pounds) avoirdupois, the latter being the official maund in India.
Origin of maund
Hindi mān from Sanskrit mānam measure from mimīte mā- he measures ; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Origin
From Middle English maunde, mande, from Old English mand, mond (“basket"), from Proto-Germanic *mandÅ (“basket"). Cognate with Dutch mand, Low German mande, archaic German Mande, later influenced by Anglo-Norman and Middle French mande (< Germanic). Related to mannequin.
Noun
(plural maunds)
- (archaic) A unit of weight in southern and western Asia, whose value varied widely by location. Two maunds made one chest of opium in East India. One maund equalled 136 pounds of opium in Turkey.
Usage notes
This spelling (maund) is usually used for the unit in British India, equal to 25 pounds avoirdupois at Madras, 28 pounds avoirdupois at Bombay and 10 troy pounds at Calcutta. For the equivalent unit in the Mughal Empire and in Persian- and Arabic-speaking countries, it is more usual to use the spelling mun or man (italicised to show that the word has not been assimilated into English).
Origin
Anglicised pronunciation of a word in many southern and western Asian languages. The -d probably from assimilation with Etymology 1 above, or from comparison with pound.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present maunds, present participle maunding, simple past and past participle maunded)
- (archaic) to beg
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