Korea

See also: korea and Kórea

Contents

EnglishEdit

Location of Korea

Alternative formsEdit

• Corea

EtymologyEdit

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/, [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪə/, [kʰɵˈɹɪə]
• Homophone: career (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -iːə

Proper nounEdit

Korea (plural Koreas)

1. An ancient country in East Asia. Since World War II, Korea has been divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea in the US, or Korea and North Korea in the UK.
2. An informal name for the Republic of Korea (South Korea) or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
3. Informal term for the Korean Peninsula

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• Best Korea
• Korean

• North Korea
• South Korea

TranslationsEdit

ancient country or both Koreas as a whole

• Abkhaz: Кореа (Ḳoreā)
• Afrikaans: Korea
• Albanian: Kore f
• Amharic: ኮርያ (korya)
• Arabic: كُورِيَا‎ f (kōriyā)
• Armenian: Կորեա (Korea)
• Asturian: Corea (ast) f
• Azeri: Koreya
• Belarusian: Карэ́я f (Karéja)
• Bengali: কোরিয়া (koriya)
• Buginese: ᨀᨚᨑᨗᨕ
• Bulgarian: Коре́я f (Koréja)
• Burmese: ကိုရီးယား (kuiri:ya:)
• Catalan: Corea f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 高麗, 高丽 (gou¹ lai⁶), 朝鮮, 朝鲜 (ciu⁴ sin¹, ziu¹ sin¹)

  Mandarin: 高麗 (zh), 高丽 (zh) (Gāolí), 朝鮮 (zh), 朝鲜 (zh) (Cháoxiǎn, Cháoxiān, Zhāoxiān), 韓國 (zh), 韩国 (zh) (Hánguó)

• Czech: Korea (cs) f
• Danish: Korea
• Dhivehi: ކޮރެއާ‎ (koreā)
• Dutch: Korea (nl)
• Esperanto: Koreujo
• Estonian: Korea (et)
• Faroese: Korea n
• Finnish: Korea (fi)
• French: Corée (fr) f
• Georgian: კორეა (ḳorea)
• German: Korea (de) n
• Greek: Κορέα (el) f (Koréa)
• Gujarati: કોરિયા (koriyā)
• Hawaiian: Kōlea
• Hebrew: קוֹרֵיאָה‎ f (koria)
• Hindi: कोरिया (hi) m (koriyā)
• Hungarian: Korea (hu)
• Icelandic: Kórea (is) f
• Ido: Korea (io)
• Indonesian: Korea (id)
• Interlingua: Corea
• Irish: An Chóiré f
• Italian: Corea (it) f
• Japanese: 朝鮮 (ja) (ちょうせん, Chōsen), 高麗 (こうらい, Kōrai), 韓国 (ja) (かんこく, Kankoku), コリア (Koria)
• Kalenjin: Korea
• Kamba: Korea
• Kannada: ಕೊರಿಯಾ (koriyā)
• Kashubian: Kòreja f
• Kazakh: Корея (Koreya)
• Khmer: កូរ៉េ (km) (kōrē)
• Kikuyu: ko
• Korean: 고려 (Goryeo), 조선 (Joseon), 한국 (Han-guk), 코리아 (Koria), 우리나라 (ko) (urinara)
• Kyrgyz: Корея (Koreya)
• Lao: ເກົາຫລີ (kao lī)
• Latin: Corea (la) f
• Latvian: Koreja f
• Lithuanian: Korėja (lt) f
• Luhya: Korea

• Luo: Korea
• Macedonian: Коре́ја (mk) f (Koréja)
• Malay: Korea
• Malayalam: കൊറിയ (koṟiya)
• Maltese: il-Korea f
• Maori: Koria
• Marathi: कोरिया (koriyā)
• Meru: Korea
• Mongolian: Солонгос (mn) (Solongos)
• Navajo: Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí
• Nepali: कोरिया (koriyā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Korea

• Oriya: କୋରିଆ (kōri'ā)
• Ossetian: Корей (Korej)
• Pashto: کوريا‎
• Persian: کره‎ (fa) (kore)
• Polish: Korea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Coreia f
• Punjabi: ਕੋਰੀਆ (korīā)
• Romanian: Coreea f
• Romansch: Corea f
• Russian: Коре́я (ru) f (Koréja)
• Sanskrit: कोरिया (koriyā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Коре́ја f

  Roman: Koréja (sh) f

• Silesian: Koryjo
• Sinhalese: කොරියාව (koriyāva)
• Slovak: Kórea f
• Slovene: Korêja (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Koreja f

  Upper Sorbian: Koreja f

• Spanish: Corea (es) f
• Swahili: Korea
• Swedish: Korea (sv)
• Tagalog: Korea
• Tajik: Қурия (Quriya), Корея (tg) (Koreya)
• Tamil: கொரியா (ta) (koriyā)
• Tatar: Корея (Qoreya)
• Telugu: కొరియా (te) (koriyā)
• Thai: เกาหลี (th) (gao-lǐi)
• Tibetan: ཀོ་རི་ཡ (ko ri ya)
• Turkish: Kore (tr)
• Turkmen: Koreýa
• Ukrainian: Коре́я f (Koréja)
• Urdu: کوریا‎ m (koriyā)
• Uyghur: چاۋشيەن‎ (chawshyen)
• Uzbek: Koreya
• Vietnamese: Cao Li, Cao Lệ, Triều Tiên (vi), Hàn Quốc (vi)
• Welsh: Corea
• Yiddish: קאָרעע‎ (koree)
• Zhuang: Cauzsenh, Hanzgoz

South Korea — see South Korea

North Korea — see North Korea

See alsoEdit

• Names of Korea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

AnagramsEdit

• oaker

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CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

Proper nounEdit

Korea f

1. Korea

Related termsEdit

• korejský
• korejština
• Korejec
• Korejka
• Jižní Korea
• Severní Korea

Further readingEdit

• Korea in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Korea in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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FaroeseEdit

Korea

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kʰoˈɹeː.a/

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Proper nounEdit

Korea n

1. Korea

DeclensionEdit

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Korea
Accusative	Korea
Dative	Korea
Genitive	Korea

Derived termsEdit

• koreanskur
• Norðurkorea
• Suðurkorea

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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

NounEdit

Korea

1. Korea (ancient country)
2. Korea (either of the two current Korean states)
3. Korea (Korean peninsula)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of Korea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
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 Koreainrare
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
instructive		—	Koreoin
abessive		Koreatta	Koreoitta
comitative		—	Koreoineen

Usage notesEdit

• Plural may be used of North and South Korea collectively.

SynonymsEdit

• (current state): Etelä-Korea, Pohjois-Korea
• (peninsula): Korean niemimaa

Derived termsEdit

• Etelä-Korea
• eteläkorealainen

• korea (language)
• korealainen

• koreankielinen
• Korean niemimaa

• Pohjois-Korea
• pohjoiskorealainen

See alsoEdit

• korea (senses beautiful or chorea)

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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /koˈʀeːaː/

• audio

  (file)

Proper nounEdit

Korea n (genitive Koreas, plural Korea)

1. Korea

Usage notesEdit

• The plural refers to both Südkorea (Republik Korea) and Nordkorea (Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea), and does occur in forms like "die beiden Korea".

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Proper nounEdit

Korea

1. Korea (region and former country in East Asia, now divided into North Korea and South Korea)

Related termsEdit

• Nord-Korea, Sør-Korea
• koreaner, nordkoreaner, sørkoreaner
• koreansk, nordkoreansk, sørkoreansk

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Proper nounEdit

Korea

1. Korea (region and former country in East Asia, now divided into North Korea and South Korea)

Related termsEdit

• Nord-Korea, Sør-Korea
• korean, koreanar, nordkorean, nordkoreanar, sørkorean, sørkoreanar
• koreansk, nordkoreansk, sørkoreansk

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PolishEdit

Map of Korea

EtymologyEdit

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈrɛa/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper nounEdit

Korea f

1. (historical) Korea (“an ancient country in East Asia”)
2. (informal) Korea (“an informal name for the South Korea or North Korea”)

DeclensionEdit

declension of Korea

	singular	plural
nominative	Korea	Koree
genitive	Korei	Korei
dative	Korei	Koreom
accusative	Koreę	Koree
instrumental	Koreą	Koreami
locative	Korei	Koreach
vocative	Koreo	Koree

Derived termsEdit

• Koreańczyk
• Koreanka
• koreański

Related termsEdit

• Korea Południowa
• Korea Północna

See alsoEdit

• Półwysep Koreański

Further readingEdit

• Korea in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• WSJP, hasło Korea

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SwahiliEdit

Proper nounEdit

Korea

1. Korea

Derived termsEdit

• Korea ya Kaskazini
• Korea ya Kusini

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Proper nounEdit

Korea

1. Korea

See alsoEdit

• Nordkorea
• Sydkorea
• korean
• koreansk
• koreanska