Korea
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- Corea (now rare)
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (US) IPA(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/, [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈɹiːə/, [kʰɵˈɹiːə]
- Homophone: career (non-rhotic)
- Homophone: chorea
- Rhymes: -iːə
Audio (UK) (file)
Proper noun edit
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).
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Descendants edit
- → Welsh: Corea
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See also edit
- Names of Korea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Korea f (related adjective korejský, demonym Korejec, female demonym Korejka)
- Korea (two countries in East Asia, North Korea and South Korea)
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Etymology edit
Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).
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Korea n
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Faroese edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).
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Korea n
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Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Korea |
Accusative | Korea |
Dative | Korea |
Genitive | Korea |
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Finnish edit
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Korea
Usage notes edit
- Plural may be used of North and South Korea collectively.
Declension edit
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 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 | ||
abessive | Koreatta | Koreoitta | ||
instructive | — | Koreoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
- (current state): Etelä-Korea, Pohjois-Korea
- (peninsula): Korean niemimaa
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- korea (senses beautiful or chorea)
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Korea n (genitive Koreas, plural Korea)
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- The plural refers to both Südkorea (Republik Korea) and Nordkorea (Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea), and does occur in forms like "die beiden Korea".
Further reading edit
- “Korea” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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Korea
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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 | ||
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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 | — |
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay Korea, ultimately from Sino-Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo).
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Korea
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Further reading edit
- “Korea” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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Korea
- Korea (region and former country in East Asia, now divided into North Korea and South Korea)
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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Korea
- Korea (region and former country in East Asia, now divided into North Korea and South Korea)
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Korea f
- (historical) Korea (“an ancient country in East Asia”)
- (informal) Korea (two countries in East Asia, North Korea and South Korea)
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
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Korea
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Korea n (genitive Koreas)
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Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish Corea. Ultimately from Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog)
- Rhymes: -ea, (English influenced) -ia
- Homophones: Correa, korea
- Syllabification: Ko‧re‧a
Proper noun edit
Korea (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇᜒᜌ)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Korea”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018