mung

See also: mừng and múŋ

English

Alternative forms

• moong, munge

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌŋ/, /muːŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Noun

mung (plural mungs)

1. The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.

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.

Alternative forms

• munge

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /mʌŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

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

• mung bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mung (computer term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Amanab

Noun

mung

1. leg

Phalura

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muŋɡ, muŋ/

Noun

mung m (Perso-Arabic spelling مُنگ)

1. pea
2. bean

Inflection

a-decl (Obl, pl): -a

References

• 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