myna
/ˈmaɪnə/noun
myna is a noun meaning “One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-N-A and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of myna is mynas.
What does myna mean?
noun
- 1
One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce myna?
- /ˈmaɪnə/
Myna has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-myna.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of myna
- mynas plural
- mynah
- mina
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is myna?
Myna appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Myna in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the Asian members of starling family:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does myna come from?
Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā) / Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).