Phrase guide

chestnut munia

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Lonchura atricapilla, a bird of the passerine family Estrildidae, of southern and eastern Asia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مونيا كستنائي — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Bihari: लौन्चुरा ऍट्रिकैपिला — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Burmese: အညိုရောင်ငှက်ပုတီး (a.nyuiraunghngakpu.ti:) — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Cebuano: mayang bungol — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黑頭文鳥 /黑头文鸟 — Lonchura atricapilla
  • French: capucin à tête noire — Lonchura atricapilla
  • German: Schwarzkopfnonne — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Hungarian: feketefejű apácapinty — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Indonesian: bondol cokelat — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Japanese: 金腹 (kinpara) — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Kannada: ಮುನಿಯ (muniya) — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Malay: pipit rawa — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Malay: ciak-padi rawa — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Nepali: कालोटाउके मुनियाँ (kāloṭāuke muniyā̃) — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Persian: نوکنقرهای بلوطی — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Russian: восто́чная черноголо́вая му́ния (vostóčnaja černogolóvaja múnija) — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Swedish: svarthuvad munia — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Swedish: svarthuvad nunna — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Swedish: trefärgad munia — Lonchura atricapilla
  • Tagalog: mayang pula — Lonchura atricapilla