different between mung vs munga

English

Alternative forms

• moong, munge

Etymology 1

From Hindi ???? (m??g), from Sanskrit ????? (mudga).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/, /mu??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mung (plural mungs)

1. A type of small bean.
2. 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): /m??/
• Rhymes: -??

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

References

Amanab

Noun

mung

1. leg

Phalura

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu??, mu?/

Noun

mung m (Perso-Arabic spelling ????)

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, “[2]”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, 1969–1985.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

munga (plural mungas)

1. (obsolete) The bonnet monkey.

Etymology 2

Noun

munga (uncountable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Food

Anagrams

• Gunma, Maung, mangu

Estonian

Noun

munga

1. genitive singular of munk

Italian

Verb

munga

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of mungere
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of mungere
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of mungere
4. third-person singular imperative of mungere

Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m???]

Noun

munga

1. night
2. darkness

Derived terms

• munga-munga (“pre-dawn; post-sunset”)
• mungangka (“at night”)
• mungatja (“of the night”)
• mungaringanyi (“to grow dark”)
• mungawa?u?u (“dusk, twilight”)

Warlpiri

Noun

munga

1. night