mung
English
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.
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)
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
Javanese
Phalura
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muŋɡ, muŋ/
Noun
mung m (Perso-Arabic spelling مُنگ)
- pea
- bean
Inflection
a-decl (Obl, pl): -a
References
- Liljegren, Henrik, Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7), 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
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