블링블링
Korean edit
Etymology edit
From English bling bling, aided by the fact that the English noun resembles a Korean reduplicative ideophone.
Pronunciation edit
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [pɯʎʎiŋbɯʎʎiŋ]
- Phonetic hangul: [블링블링]
Romanizations | |
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Revised Romanization? | beullingbeulling |
Revised Romanization (translit.)? | beullingbeulling |
McCune–Reischauer? | pŭllingbŭlling |
Yale Romanization? | pullingpulling |
Ideophone edit
블링블링 • (beullingbeulling)
- (colloquial) shinily, fancily, bling-bling-ly (often used to refer to celebrities)
Usage notes edit
블링블링 (beullingbeulling) is one of the few recently loaned ideophones in Korean. Like most ideophones which have entered the lexicon only recently, it does not obey yin-yang vowel ablaut or consonant alternation.