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Munda

Munda proper noun: an Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.

Proper noun

Munda

  1. An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.

Noun

Munda (plural Mundas or Munda)

  1. Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.

Munda meaning in Bengali

Munda in Bengali

Munda
মুন্ডা munḍa

Forms of Munda

pluralMundas
pluralMunda

Origin of Munda

From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian.

Questions about Munda

What does Munda mean?
Munda means an Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.
What is Munda in Bengali?
Munda in Bengali is মুন্ডা (munḍa). See Munda meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Munda?
Munda can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Munda in the dictionary

  1. muncorn
  2. muncorn team
  3. Muncy
  4. Muncys
  5. mund
  6. Munda
  7. mundan
  8. mundane
  9. mundanely
  10. mundaneness
  11. mundanenesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Munda (page history and authors); মুন্ডা (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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