Home › Words › M › maundmaund/mɔːnd/maund means A surname.maund is pronounced /mɔːnd/.EtymologyFrom Middle English maunde, maundie, borrowed from Old French mande, borrowed from Middle Dutch mande, from Old Dutch *manda, from Proto-West Germanic *mandu.nameA surname.nounA wicker basket.A unit of capacity with various specific local values.A handbasket with two lids.A unit of weight in south and west Asia, whose value varies widely by location.e.g.“Now the rail has come, and the fire-carriage says buz-buz-buz, and a hundred lakhs of maunds slide across that big bridge.” — 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “In Flood Time”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 410:beggingverbto bege.g.“He maunds Abram, he begs as a madde man.” — c. 1608–1610, Samuel Rid, Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell:To mutter; to mumble or speak incoherently; to maunder.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).