murga

• murgha

From a Hindi and Urdu word for rooster

murga (uncountable)

1. A stress position used as corporal punishment in parts of South Asia. The punished person has to squat and loop the arms behind the knees to grip the ears.

• garum

Probably from an earlier form *musga, from Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “of a Muse”). Unlike the borrowed doublet música, this form is at least semi-popular[1], although it is uncertain if it was completely popularly inherited.

murga f (plural murgas)

1. band or group of street musicians
2. (colloquial) bugbear (annoyance)