Korea
English
Alternative forms
- Corea (now rare)
Etymology
(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) First attested as Core in the 1598 English translation of the 1596 Itinerario of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, from the original Dutch Core, itself from Portuguese according to van Linschoten's account. The spelling Corea was more common in Early Modern English, likely through Core + -ia.
Ultimately a sixteenth-century borrowing by Europeans from some variety of Chinese. Compare Mandarin 高麗/高丽 (Gāolí) but especially Hokkien 高麗/高丽 (Ko-lê), which matches the Dutch-Portuguese vowels exactly.
These are Chinese pronunciations of Sino-Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo), Korea's official name between 918 and 1394 and still used by Chinese people to refer to the country for centuries thereafter; this itself being a shortening of 高句麗 (“Goguryeo”), an ancient Korean kingdom in the first millennium. Doublet of Goryeo, directly from Korean.
Some Korean authors claim an Arabic intermediary instead, but this is impossible because the actual medieval Arabic word for Korea was a variant of السيلى (al-sīlā, see also Silla).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/, [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈɹiːə/, [kʰɵˈɹiːə]
- Homophones: chorea (general), career (in fast non-rhotic speech)
- Rhymes: -iːə
Audio (UK): (file)
Proper noun
Korea (countable and uncountable, plural Koreas)
- A nation and peninsula in East Asia. Now divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea.
- 1780, “The Hiſtory of Jenghîz Khan's Succeſſors in Tartary and China”, in The Modern Part of an Univerſal History from the Earlieſt Accounts to the Preſent Time[1], volume IV, page 297:
- After the death of the empreſs Papûſha he had been baniſhed into Korea, from whence he was removed to Quey-lin Fû, the capital of Quang-ſi.
- 1954, Alben W. Barkley, “What Happened at Chicago”, in That Reminds Me[2], Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 246:
- Then I told the delegates of the trip which I had taken with my wife, Jane, into Korea on the previous Thanksgiving, and of how I had celebrated my seventy-fourth birthday on the snowy mountains of Korea, eating from a mess kit with the men in uniform.
- Short for the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
- (recently less common) Short for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (historical) A dependency of Japan (1910–1945).
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Welsh: Corea
Translations
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See also
- Names of Korea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea f (related adjective korejský, demonym Korejec, female demonym Korejka)
- Korea (two countries in East Asia, North Korea and South Korea)
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- “Korea”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “Korea”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “Korea”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea n
Derived terms
Faroese
Etymology
Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea n
Declension
Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Korea |
Accusative | Korea |
Dative | Korea |
Genitive | Korea |
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea
Usage notes
- Plural may be used of North and South Korea collectively.
Declension
Inflection of Korea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Korea | Koreat | |
genitive | Korean | Koreoiden Koreoitten | |
partitive | Koreaa | Koreoita | |
illative | Koreaan | Koreoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Korea | Koreat | |
accusative | nom. | Korea | Koreat |
gen. | Korean | ||
genitive | Korean | Koreoiden Koreoitten Koreain rare | |
partitive | Koreaa | Koreoita | |
inessive | Koreassa | Koreoissa | |
elative | Koreasta | Koreoista | |
illative | Koreaan | Koreoihin | |
adessive | Korealla | Koreoilla | |
ablative | Korealta | Koreoilta | |
allative | Korealle | Koreoille | |
essive | Koreana | Koreoina | |
translative | Koreaksi | Koreoiksi | |
abessive | Koreatta | Koreoitta | |
instructive | — | Koreoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- (current state): Etelä-Korea, Pohjois-Korea
- (peninsula): Korean niemimaa
Derived terms
See also
- korea (senses beautiful or chorea)
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea n (genitive Koreas, plural Korea)
Usage notes
- The plural refers to both Südkorea (Republik Korea) and Nordkorea (Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea), and does occur in forms like "die beiden Korea".
Further reading
- “Korea” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Korea | — |
accusative | Koreát | — |
dative | Koreának | — |
instrumental | Koreával | — |
causal-final | Koreáért | — |
translative | Koreává | — |
terminative | Koreáig | — |
essive-formal | Koreaként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Koreában | — |
superessive | Koreán | — |
adessive | Koreánál | — |
illative | Koreába | — |
sublative | Koreára | — |
allative | Koreához | — |
elative | Koreából | — |
delative | Koreáról | — |
ablative | Koreától | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Koreáé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Koreáéi | — |
Possessive forms of Korea | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Koreám | — |
2nd person sing. | Koreád | — |
3rd person sing. | Koreája | — |
1st person plural | Koreánk | — |
2nd person plural | Koreátok | — |
3rd person plural | Koreájuk | — |
Derived terms
(Compound words):
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay Korea, ultimately from Sino-Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /koˈrea/ [koˈre.a]
- Rhymes: -ea
- Syllabification: Ko‧re‧a
Proper noun
Koréa
Compounds
Further reading
- “Korea” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Etymology
Ultimately from Sino-Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea (Jawi spelling کوريا)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Indonesian: Korea
Further reading
- “Korea” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Proper noun
Korea
- Korea (region and former country in East Asia, now divided into North Korea and South Korea)
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Proper noun
Korea
- Korea (region and former country in East Asia, now divided into North Korea and South Korea)
Related terms
- Nord-Korea, Sør-Korea
- korean, koreanar, nordkorean, nordkoreanar, sørkorean, sørkoreanar
- koreansk, nordkoreansk, sørkoreansk
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea f
- (historical) Korea (“an ancient country in East Asia”)
- (informal) Korea (two countries in East Asia, North Korea and South Korea)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- Korea in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Korea in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swahili
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea
Derived terms
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Korea n (genitive Koreas)
See also
References
Anagrams
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Corea. Ultimately from Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: Ko‧re‧a
Proper noun
Korea (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇᜒᜌ)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Korea”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- English terms borrowed from Dutch
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- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English terms suffixed with -ia
- English terms derived from Chinese
- English terms derived from Hokkien
- English doublets
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- Rhymes:English/iːə
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- en:Dependent territories
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- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- cs:Countries in Asia
- cs:Countries
- Czech feminine nouns in -ea
- Czech exonyms
- Dutch terms derived from Korean
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- Faroese terms derived from Korean
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- fo:Countries
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- Finnish terms derived from Korean
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/oreɑ
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- Finnish lemmas
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- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
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- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒ
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- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
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- id:Countries
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- Rhymes:Malay/ia
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Korean
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛa
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- Rhymes:Swedish/²eːa
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- Rhymes:Tagalog/ea
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