Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mung

/mʌŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English

Syllables: mung
IPA: /mʌŋ/

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

verb

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.

Informal

verb

To harm, to damage; to destroy.

Informal

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Hindi

Word Breakdown

Root: मूँग, मुद्ग

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /mʌŋ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

mungs (plural) mongo (alternative) moongo (alternative) moong (alternative) munge (alternative) mungo (alternative) munj (alternative) mungs (present, singular) munging (participle, present) munged (participle, past) munged (past)

Derived Forms

munger unmunged

Synonyms

mung bean green bean green gram golden gram moong mash bean munggo monggo green soy

Rhymes With

young among tongue silver tongue hung well-hung lung horse-hung sung ng swung chi kung

Questions

How do you pronounce mung?: The recorded pronunciation is /mʌŋ/.
What does mung mean?: mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.
Where does mung come from?: It is traced to Hindi.

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