Munda

Dictionary: Mun·da (mʊn'də) pronunciation

n.
An Austro-Asiatic language family spoken in northeast India and adjacent regions and including Santali.

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1. A king of Magadha, the grandson of Ajātaśatru, who followed family tradition and murdered his father to seize the throne, only to be killed by his own son later.

2. A large group of tribal people in India belonging to the Austro-asiatic ethnic group and, as such, their languages and culture owed little to the dominant Brahmanical culture of India. Although they may have been more widely spread throughout India in very early times, they are now concentrated in the hill tracts of Orissa, southern Bihar, and west Bengal. There seems to have been some input from these people in the development of tantric Buddhism but this connection has not yet been fully explored by scholars.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a family of languages spoken by people scattered throughout central India

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Munda may refer to:

Munda, an early Hoysala chieftain from Malnad Karnataka
Munda, a village situated near Bilyamin in Lower Kurram Agency, FATA Pakistan.
Munda (Solomon Islands), the largest settlement on the island of New Georgia in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands
Battle of Munda took place on March 17, 45 BC in the plains of Munda, southern Spain; the last battle of Julius Caesar's civil war against the conservative republicans
Battle of Munda Point, a World War II battle
Munda, the Latin name of the Mondego River, in present-day Portugal
Munda (Hinduism), a monster that was killed by Chamunda Devi in Hinduism
Munda languages, a language family spoken by about 9,000,000 people in eastern and central India
Mundari language, a member of the Munda language family, spoken by the Munda people.
Munda people, an Adivasi people of eastern India and parts of Bangladesh
Birsa Munda (1875–1900), a leader of the Munda people
Arjun Munda (born 1968), former Chief Minister of the state of Jharkhand in India
Munda is a village situated about 365 km from Delhi, India, in Hanumangarh District of State of Rajasthan

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