상그랍다

Korean

Alternative forms

• 상그럽다 (sanggeureopda), 쌍그랍다 (ssanggeurapda), 쌍그럽다 (ssanggeureopda)

Etymology

Compare northern Gyeongsang 사모랍다 (samorapda, “to be brutish, to be malicious”) (attested since the eighteenth century), also Middle Korean 사오〮납다〮 (Yale: sàwónàptá, “to be fierce, to be malicious”) > Seoul 사납다 (sanapda).

Adjective

상그랍다 • (sanggeurapda) (infinitive 상그랍아, sequential 상그랍으니) (Gyeongsang, Jeolla dialect)

1. (of an object or person) to be difficult to deal with
2. to be dangerous, to be unpropitious

   Synonym: 사납다 (sanapda)

   가는 팔자도 상그랍다. (Gyeongsang dialect, Changwon)

   Ga-neun palja-do sanggeurapda.

   Even his destiny is bad.

3. to be disorienting

   Synonym: 사납다 (sanapda)

   와 그리 댕기노? 정신 쌍그럽구로. (Gyeongsang dialect, Changwon)

   Wa geuri daenggino? Jeongsin ssanggeureopguro.

   Why are you going back and forth like that? It's disorienting.

4. (of a blade) to be sharp

   Synonym: 날카롭다 (nalkaropda)

Further reading

• 경남 방언 사전 [gyeongnam bang'eon sajeon, Dictionary of southern Gyeongsang varieties], volume I, South Gyeongsang Provincial Government, 2017, page 438