maun


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maun

(mɑːn; mɔːn) or

man

;

mun

(mʌn)
vb
a dialect word for must1
[C14: from Old Norse man must, will]
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A man maun leave fether and mother (I'm yer fether), and cleave to his wife.
"I maun joost see that the cook's;'s dune her duty--the creatures are no' capable o' decidin' that knotty point for their ain selves." He took off one of the covers, and picked bits, here and there, out of the dish with the fork " Eh!
"I wasna in the way when ye cam' here, or I suld ha' made bauld to ask ye the question which I maun e'en ask noo.
King George is to whistle for his rents; he maun dow with less; he can spread his butter thinner: what cares Red Colin?
Sine as ye brew, my maiden fair, Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill.
Mr Kwerepe said the centre was critical since Sehithwa was strategically located between Maun and Ghanzi.
Les effets du changement climatique ont provoque un stress hydrique dans la region de Maun, et la rarete de l'eau provoque des conflits entre les hommes et les animaux.
Summary: New Delhi [India], Nov 18 (ANI): Indian boxer Manisha Maun defeated reigning world champion Dina Zholman of Kazakhstan in the preliminary round of the ongoing tenth edition of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Women's World Boxing Championship here on Sunday.
The partnership with Air Botswana, the national airline of Botswana, will provide Qatar Airways passengers with connections to the Botswana cities of Gaborone, Francistown and Maun via Qatar Airways' South Africa gateway Johannesburg.
When my niece Joy, the author of this book, announced in very few words by email to a few of us close family and relatives that she was leaving Timor Leste for good including her husband, Maun Fernando Lasama de Araujo as well (a few months before he died) so many questions swirled back and forth in my mind.
TOP TIP Fly on one of the chartered flights from Maun - the gateway to the delta - on one of the many Cessna planes available for hire at the airport and spot lions and elephants in their natural habitat.