English Explanatory Dictionary

Munda

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.
noun
  1. Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.

Word forms

Munda Mundas

Etymology

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

Related words

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