muni

See also: Appendix:Variations of "muni"

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of municipal.

Noun

muni (plural munis) (colloquial)

1. (finance) A municipal bond.

   I invested half of my savings in a muni fund.

2. A facility operated by a municipal government, such as a golf course or train line.

   We usually play at a muni.

3. The municipal government / municipality

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit मुनि (muni).

Noun

muni (plural munis)

1. (Jainism, Buddhism) A holy man; a noble one; a sage or ascetic. [from 18th c.]
   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 158:

     Disguising himself, he ventured into the countryside, where he spied a muni meditating beneath a plane tree.

Etymology 3

Noun

muni (uncountable)

1. (informal) Short for municycling

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuni/, [ˈmuni] (third-person indicative)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmuniˣ/, [ˈmuni(ʔ)] (imperative, indicative connegative)
• Rhymes: -uni
• Syllabification^(key): mu‧ni
• Hyphenation^(key): mu‧ni

Verb

muni

1. inflection of munia:
   1. third-person singular past indicative
   2. present active indicative connegative
   3. second-person singular present imperative
   4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• imun, miun, muin

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ni/

Participle

muni (feminine munie, masculine plural munis, feminine plural munies)

1. past participle of munir

Further reading

• “muni”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Gothic

Romanization

muni

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌹

Latin

Verb

mūnī

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mūniō

Ngarrindjeri

Noun

muni

1. mosquito