mung

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See also: -mung, mừng, and múŋ

English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).

Pronunciation

Noun

mung (countable and uncountable, plural mungs)

  1. mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.

Etymology 2

Often doubtfully explained as mash until no good, or a self-referencing (recursive) acronym, mung until no good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s. Potentially related to mangle.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

  2. (computing, informal) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
  3. (by extension, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.

Further reading

References

  • “mung”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ “mung”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Amanab

Noun

mung

  1. leg

Javanese

Romanization

mung

  1. romanization of ꦩꦸꦁ

Phalura

Etymology

From Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga, “the bean Phaseolus mungo”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mung m (Perso-Arabic spelling مُنگ)

  1. pea
  2. bean

Inflection

a-decl (Obl, pl): -a

References

  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “mung”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mung”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Sundanese

Sundanese register set
lemes mung
lemes ka sorangan {{{les}}}
lemes ka batur {{{leb}}}
loma ngan
cohag {{{co}}}

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦸꦁ (mung, “only”).

Adverb

mung (Sundanese script ᮙᮥᮀ)

  1. only
    Mung sapuluh urang nu salamet tina kajadian éta.
    Only ten people survived that incident.

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