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mung

/mʌŋ/US/mʌŋ/

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

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

mung (countable and uncountable, plural mungs)

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

Verb

mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

  1. (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. (broadly, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.

mung meaning in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati

mung in Hindi

mung, mung bean
मूँग mūṅg

mung in Marathi

mung, mung bean; Vigna radiata
मूग mūg

mung in Gujarati

mung, mung bean
મગ mag

Forms of mung

Noun
pluralmungs
alternative formmongo
alternative formmoongo
alternative formmoong
alternative formmunge
alternative formmungo
alternative formmunj
Verb
third-person singular presentmungs
present participlemunging
past participlemunged
pastmunged

Origin of mung

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

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. Potentially related to mangle.

Words formed from mung

Phrases with mung

Words that rhyme with mung

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Questions about mung

What does mung mean?
Mung means mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.
What is mung in Hindi?
Mung in Hindi is मूँग (mūṅg). See Mung meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is mung?
Mung can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce mung?
Mung is pronounced /mʌŋ/.
What is the plural of mung?
The plural of mung is mungs.

Words near mung in the dictionary

  1. Muneton
  2. Munetons
  3. Munford
  4. Munfords
  5. Munfordville
  6. mung
  7. mung bean
  8. mung beans
  9. munga
  10. Mungal
  11. Mungan syndrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mung (page history and authors); मूँग (Hindi) (page history and authors); मूग (Marathi) (page history and authors); મગ (Gujarati) (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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