munda means an Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, munda ranks #16,734 of 42,752 for Qualifying.
Etymology
From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian.
name
- An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.
noun
- Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.
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Words closest in meaning
By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.
- bhumij 62% match — A Munda ethnic group of India. vs munda →
- sora 60% match — A rail (Porzana carolina) bird of North, Central, and northern South America. vs munda →
- munduruku 57% match — A member of an indigenous people of Brazil, inhabiting the Amazon River Basin. vs munda →
- mundugumor 54% match — A member of a tribe of Papua New Guinea, living in the Sepik River region. vs munda →
- mamu 53% match — An aboriginal people of Australia. vs munda →
- udmurt 53% match — A member of the people inhabiting Udmurtia or speaking Udmurt. vs munda →
- muria 53% match — A Gondi tribal people of India. vs munda →
- nunga 52% match — One of the Australian Aboriginal people of southern South Australia, particularly those of Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Narungga ancestry. vs munda →