mung
English edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).
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Noun edit
mung (countable and uncountable, plural mungs)
- mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.
Etymology 2 edit
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.
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Verb edit
mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)
- (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.
- (by extension, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.
Further reading edit
- mung bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- mung (computer term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References edit
- “mung”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ “mung”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Amanab edit
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mung
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
mung
- Romanization of ꦩꦸꦁ
Phalura edit
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga, “the bean Phaseolus mungo”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mung m (Perso-Arabic spelling مُنگ)
- pea
- bean
Inflection edit
a-decl (Obl, pl): -a
References edit
- Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)[1], 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