maund

[ mawnd ]

noun
  1. a unit of weight in India and other parts of Asia, varying greatly according to locality: in India, from about 25 to 82.286 pounds (11 to 37.4 kilograms) (the latter being the government maund).

Origin of maund

1
1575–85; <Hindi mān<Sanskrit māna

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How to use maund in a sentence

  • The men dip in baskets, or maunds, expressly made for this purpose, and ladle out the quivering fish by hundreds into the boats.

  • Kasi, being an important official, receives from the Bhutan Government forty maunds of barley and forty maunds of rice annually.

    The Unveiling of Lhasa | Edmund Candler
  • A hundred and forty maunds of inferior gunpowder was destroyed, and the arms now litter the courtyard.

    The Unveiling of Lhasa | Edmund Candler
  • Of these, only 400 or 500 maunds reached Phari; the rest was stored at Gantok or consumed on the road.

    The Unveiling of Lhasa | Edmund Candler
  • An elephant can carry a weight of ten or twelve maunds—a maund being equal to eighty pounds.

    Life in an Indian Outpost | Gordon Casserly

British Dictionary definitions for maund

maund

/ (mɔːnd) /


noun
  1. a unit of weight used in Asia, esp India, having different values in different localities. A common value in India is 82 pounds or 37 kilograms

Origin of maund

1
C17: from Hindi man, from Sanskrit manā

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