1798 F. Buchanan in Asiatick Researches 5 235 To the kingdom, the natives of which call themselves Moan, we have given the name of Pegu, a corruption of the vulgar appellation of its capital city Bagoo.

1854 F. Mason in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 4 284 Moan, the name by which the Talaings now call themselves.

1932 J. G. Scott Burma & Beyond i. 16 The Khmêr went, or were pushed, farther east,..but the Mōn remained behind, and came to be known to the early merchant adventurers as Peguans.

1971 National Geographic Mar. 356 Masterpieces of lacquer ware... The craft may have originated in China and spread across Southeast Asia to the Mons, who brought the technique to the capital.

1991 Man 26 568 The first essay..posits the existence of proto-Indochinese kingdoms..in north Thailand and south Burma before the Indianization of the area by the Mon.

1808 J. Leyden in Asiatick Researches 10 239 Môn.—The Môn language is still used by the original inhabitants of Pegu, who denominate themselves Môn.

1831 Encycl. Americana VI. 561 The Mon is still prevalent among the inhabitants of Pegu.

1854 F. M. Müller in C. C. J. Bunsen Outl. Philos. Universal Hist. I. 389 A list of words given by Dr. Morton, of the Mon or Talien, shows coincidences with Kamboja words from the Mekhong river.

1881 C. J. F. S. Forbes Compar. Gram. Lang. Further India iv. 49 In three savage and more primitive dialects we find further traces of affinity with the Mon.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xii. 393 Mōn-Khmēr has six sub-divisions: Central (Mōn or Talaing, Khmēr or Cambodian, Bahuar, etc.).

1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 228 The group [sc. Mon-Khmer] takes its name from two of its members: Mon, the vernacular of the coastal districts round the Gulf of Martaban between Rangoon and Moulmein, and Khmer or Cambodian, the state language of Cambodia.

1998 D. Bellos et al. tr. G. Ifrah Universal Hist. Numbers xxiv. 383/2 From this system was derived:..Burmese, which derived from Môn in the eleventh century, used by populations of Pegu before the Burmese invasion.

1828 J. Crawfurd Jrnl. Embassy to Siam & Cochin China xv. 448 Of the Mon, or Pegu, race, although the Siamese be in possession of no part of their territory, there are a considerable number in Siam.

1873 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 42 i. 34 The people of Pegu..call themselves Mun, Mwun, or Mon... The Burmese, since the conquest of Pegu..in 1757–58, had strongly discouraged the use of the Mun language.

1877 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1875–6 83 Cambojan..has loan-words from Malay, Pali, Annamite, and Mon.

1907 V. C. S. O'Connor Mandalay iv. ii. 400 Under Binya Dala a strenuous effort was made by the Môn people to recover their ancient ascendency in Burma, and restore the glories of Pegu.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xii. 394 The earliest Mōn inscription is of 1084.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet vii. 410 The early Mon character was not only the ancestor of the modern Mon script, but also of the Burmese and some Shan characters.

1984 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 44 244 Traditional Mon society and culture in Thailand, the Mon language, and a description of three Mon villages are presented in chapter 1.

1995 Guardian 28 Sept. i. 18/4 Nowadays, Mon is spoken mainly by the Mon minority in Burma, within which—like the Karens and Shans—they have their own state.

1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan I. iv. x. 390 List of the Contraband Goods, none of which the Dutch are suffer'd to buy... Gomon. The Emperor's coat of arms. All prints, pictures, goods or stuffs bearing the same.]

1861 C. P. Hodgson Resid. at Nagasaki & Hakodate 16 These very people most uncivilly and most unreasonably refuse to accept the signet and ‘moon’ of the Imperial Siegoon.

1869 W. G. Dickson Japan 328 The ‘mong’, or crest of the owner, is generally stamped upon the curtain, which has at a distance, perhaps, given the idea of loop-holes.

1878 F. B. Palliser tr. A. Jacquemart Hist. Furnit. 457 Of these princely [Japanese] families we shall give the ‘mon’ or arms most frequently occurring.

1893 A. M. Bacon Japanese Interior x. 166 A kimono of some plain coloured crape with the mon or crest stamped on the back and sleeves in white.

1910 E. Papinot Hist. & Geog. Dict. Japan (1972) 400 The higher daimyō usually had three different mon.

1980 Daily Tel. 22 Nov. 13/5 The mon (or family badge) of the Japanese Masakitsu family comprises four silver leaves..on a gold background.

1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Feb. 7/2 The stately tall backs of the chairs, surmounted by oval motifs recalling the mon crests of Japanese nobility, invested the scene with an inviolably regal presence.

2016 A. McClellan Bonsai & Penjing 110 One item I considered important was a logo for the collection—that is, a kind of family crest (mon) such as I had so often seen in Japan.

1888 A. Trumble Mott Street Poker Club (1889) 6 No playee polkel if you no havee mon.

1894 Yale Wit & Humor 69/2 Who in the cold world makes large ‘mon’, And comes back to ‘Trienns’ for fun?

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. v. 119 In little old New York,..you've got to have the mon. or you get..the swift, hard kick.

1958 A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot ii. 122 I'm only going because she's got lots of lovely ‘mon’ and might leave it to me.

1963 ‘J. Bell’ Flat Tyre in Fulham iii. 30 All that good ‘mon’ down the drain.

1989 B. Roche Handful of Stars i. i, in K. Harwood First Run 204 Hey..no mon, no fun boy. If you want to bet with me put your money down.

1922 Trans. Internat. Astron. Union 1 158 The following resolutions were adopted [at the first General Assembly of the IAU]: (1) The exclusive use of the Latin names of the constellations. (2) The adoption of the three-letter abbreviations proposed by Profs. Hertzsprung and Russell for the representation of the 88 principal constellations... Men Mensa... Mic Microscopium... Mon Monoceros... Mus Musca.

1930 C. H. Payne Stars High Luminosity 298 (table) Z Mon.

1964 D. H. Menzel Field Guide Stars & Planets vi. 248 β Mon is an easily resolved triple.

1995 Astron. & Astrophysics 297 L51/2 The magnetic field in Mon R2 appears well-ordered over scales larger than either of the beam widths.

1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed xi. 102 ‘Mon,’ he says tae me, ‘you an' me's hivin' a square-go’.

1985 J. Kelman Chancer 156 Hey Vi—mon we'll go to the cafe across the road!

1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting 54 Eh? 'Moan tae fuck! Whit you oan aboot? ah respond, genuinely fuckin perplexed at the bastard's outburst.

2000 M. Pye Lollipop iv. 144 Moan, Ev, dae ye want a boatil ay beer? Huv a dance wi us..moan.

2016 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Dec. (Entertainm. section) 'Mon we'll go and have a wee kerry oan to ourselves.