Meaning

2 senses
  1. A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

  2. Mu (a river in Burma).

Examples

20 sentences
  1. We musn't forget that red wine is delicious with cheese.

  2. Maybe my favourite katakana syllabogram is the one for "mu."

  3. Mu shu pork is my speciality.

  4. "Muß" is an old and incorrect way of writing of "muss".

    de„Muß“ ist eine alte und inkorrekte Schreibweise von „muss.“ — Adelpa

  5. Mennad musn't be late.

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Origin

Coined by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1864 (through mistranslating a word in

Coined by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1864 (through mistranslating a word in the Mayan Madrid Codex using the De Landa alphabet), as the name of a land that had been submerged by a catastrophe; later identified as Atlantis by Augustus Le Plongeon.

Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).

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See also

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