mung
English
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʌŋ/, /muːŋ/[1]
- Rhymes: -ʌŋ
Noun
mung (countable and uncountable, plural mungs)
- 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
- (US) IPA(key): /mʌŋ/
- Rhymes: -ʌŋ
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
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
- mung bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- mung (computer term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “mung”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ “mung”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Amanab
Noun
mung
Javanese
Romanization
mung
- romanization of ꦩꦸꦁ
Phalura
Etymology
From Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga, “the bean Phaseolus mungo”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muŋɡ, muŋ/
Noun
mung m (Perso-Arabic spelling مُنگ)
- pea
- bean
Inflection
a-decl (Obl, pl): -a
References
- Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “mung”, in 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
Sundanese
Sundanese register set | |
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lemes | mung |
loma | ngan |
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦸꦁ (mung, “only”).
Adverb
mung (Sundanese script ᮙᮥᮀ)
- only
- Mung sapuluh urang nu salamet tina kajadian éta.
- Only ten people survived that incident.
See also
- amung
- namung