mung

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See also: -mung, mừng, and múŋ

English

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Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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mung (countable and uncountable, plural mungs)

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

Etymology 2

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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

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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

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References

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  • mung”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Amanab

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Noun

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mung

  1. leg

Javanese

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Romanization

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mung

  1. Romanization of ꦩꦸꦁ

Phalura

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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mung m (Perso-Arabic spelling مُنگ)

  1. pea
  2. bean

Inflection

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a-decl (Obl, pl): -a

References

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  • 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