Home › Words › M › mithunmithunmithun means A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.EtymologyBorrowed from Sanskrit मिथुन (mithuna).nameA male given name from Sanskrit used in India.nounBos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle.e.g.“Early one morning, a tiger on the prowl overheard two mithun gossiping as they grazed in a clearing.” — 2005, “Tseube”, in First Sun Stories: Unusual Folk Tales from the North East, Katha, published 2011, →ISBN, page 28:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.tsine 60% match — A Malayan wild ox, Bos javanicus. vs mithun →banteng 57% match — A wild ox, Bos javanicus, found in Borneo, Malaysia and the Indochina peninsula. vs mithun →sladang 57% match — A gaur or Indian bison (Bos gaurus). vs mithun →bubaline 55% match — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a buffalo. vs mithun →yakin 54% match — A large Himalayan antelope, Budorcas taxicolor vs mithun →arni 53% match — The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee) vs mithun →kidang 53% match — muntjac vs mithun →aurochs 52% match — An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle. vs mithun →