See also: mừng and múŋ

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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)

  1. 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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Pronunciation edit

  • (US) IPA(key): /mʌŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌŋ
  • (file)

Verb edit

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

  1. (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.
  2. (by extension, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.

Further reading edit

References edit

  • mung”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Amanab edit

Noun edit

mung

  1. leg

Javanese edit

Romanization edit

mung

  1. Romanization of ꦩꦸꦁ

Phalura edit

Etymology edit

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

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Noun edit

mung m (Perso-Arabic spelling مُنگ)

  1. pea
  2. 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