# munia
## English
### Alternative forms

* minia

### Etymology

From Hindi मुनिया (muniyā).

### Noun

munia (plural munias)
* 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.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* alpine munia (Lonchura monticola)
* Bismarck munia (Lonchura melaena)
* black-and-white munia (Lonchura bicolor)
* black-breasted munia (Lonchura teerinki)
* black-faced munia (Lonchura molucca)
* black munia (Lonchura stygia)
* black-throated munia (Lonchura kelaarti)
* bronze munia (Lonchura cucullata)
* brown-backed munia (Lonchura nigriceps)
* chestnut munia (Lonchura atricapilla)
* cream-bellied munia (Lonchura pallidiventer)
* dusky munia (Lonchura fuscans)
* five-coloured munia (Lonchura quinticolor)
* grand munia (Lonchura grandis)
* green munia (Amandava formosa)
* grey-banded munia (Lonchura vana)
* grey-crowned munia (Lonchura nevermanni)
* Javan munia (Lonchura leucogastroides)
* magpie munia (Lonchura fringilloides)
* mottled munia (Lonchura hunsteini)
* New Hanover munia (Lonchura niggerima)
* New Ireland munia (Lonchura forbesi)
* pale-headed munia (Lonchura pallida)
* red munia (Amandava amandava)
* scaly-breasted munia (Lonchura punctulata)
* snow mountain munia (Lonchura montana)
* streak-headed munia (Lonchura tristissima)
* tricoloured munia (Lonchura malacca)
* white-bellied munia (Lonchura leucogastra)
* white-capped munia (Lonchura ferruginosa)
* white-headed munia (Lonchura maja)
* white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)
* white-throated munia (Lonchura malabarica)

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Unami, animu

## Finnish
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmuniɑˣ/, [ˈmuniɑ̝(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -uniɑ
* Hyphenation: mu‧nia

#### Verb

munia
* To lay an egg.
* (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?

##### Derived terms

* munija
* muniminen
* muninta
* munittaa

#### Further reading

* “munia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmuniɑ/, [ˈmuniɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -uniɑ
* Hyphenation: mu‧nia

#### Noun

munia
* partitive plural of muna

### Anagrams

* imuna, mauin, minua, muina

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmuː.ni.a/, [ˈmuːniä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmu.ni.a/, [ˈmuːniä]

### Noun

mūnia n pl (variously declined, genitive mūnium or mūniōrum); third declension, second declension
* (plural only) duties, functions

#### Declension

In Classical Latin, only the nominative and accusative are attested.
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem) or second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

### References

* “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.

## Portuguese
### Verb

munia
* first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of munir