munia

• minia

Borrowed from Hindi मुनिया (muniyā).

munia (plural munias)

1. Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most instances) and Amandava (two species).
   • 1895, Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford, Birds, volume 3, page 88:

     It is said, however, occasionally though rarely to eat insects, and Layard has related how an individual, kept in captivity, killed and swallowed small birds (Munias), its fellow-captives.

   • 2000, Tara Gandhi, Birds and Plant Regeneration, page 76:

     Munias are smaller than sparrows; they have pointed short tails, and live in flocks, building large communal nests shared by several breeding pairs.

   • 2010, Graham R. S. Ritchie, Simon Kirby, “20: A Possible Role for Selective Masking in the Evolution of Complex, Learned Communication Systems”, in Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Angelo Cangelosi, editors, Emergence of Communication and Language, page 398:

     Okanoya (2002) argues that the Bengalese finch has a much more 'complex' song than the munia. As mentioned earlier, his measure of complexity is the song linearity. He finds that the average song linearity of the munia is around 0.8 while the Bengalese finch song has a value of around 0.4.

• (finch of genus Lonchura): mannikin, silverbill (generally separate, with some overlap)
• (finch of genus Amandava): avadavat

• Unami, animu

From Proto-Finnic *munëidak; equivalent to muna (“egg”) +‎ -ia. Akin to Ludian munida and Veps munda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuniɑˣ/, [ˈmuniɑ̝(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -uniɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mu‧ni‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): mu‧nia

munia

1. To lay an egg.
2. (colloquial) To let somebody wait without any good reason, to loiter or to be sluggish (normally only in irritated questions).

   Mitä te oikein munitte siellä?

   What on earth are you loitering there for?

• “munia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuniɑ/, [ˈmuniɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -uniɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mu‧ni‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): mu‧nia

munia

1. partitive plural of muna

• imuna, mauin, minua, muina

From Proto-Italic *moinis, from Proto-Indo-European *moy-nós, from *mey- (“to change, swap”). mūnus (“service”) is from the same source.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.ni.a]

mūnia n pl (genitive mūnium or mūniōrum); variously declined, third declension, second declension

1. (plural only) duties, functions

In Classical Latin, only the nominative and accusative are attested.

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem) or second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

• “munia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “munia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “munia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

munia

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of munir