Korea

korea Kórea English thumb|Location of Korea Alternative forms en Corea now rare Etymology en Missing sources First attested as Core in the 1598 English translation of the 1596 Itinerario of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, from the original en nl Core, itself from en pt - according to van Linschoten's account. The spelling Corea was more common in Early Modern English. Ultimately a sixteenth-century borrowing by Europeans from some variety of en zh -. Compare cmn 高麗 Gāolí but especially en nan-hbl 高麗 Ko-lê, which matches the Dutch-Portuguese vowels exactly. These are Chinese pronunciations of Sino-Korean ko ^고려(高麗), 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 lzh-lit 高句麗 - Goguryeo, an ancient Korean kingdom in the first millennium. en 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 ar السيلى al-sīlā see also Silla. Pronunciation en /kəˈɹi.ə/ [kʰəˈɹi.ə] US en /kəˈɹiːə/ [kʰəˈɹiːə] RP en /kəˈɹɪjə/ [kʰəˈɹɪjə] SSB en LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-Korea.wav Southern England en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Korea.wav London en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Korea.wav Southern England en /kəˈɾi.ə/ [kʰəˈɾi.ə] Scotland en /kəˈɾiːə/ [kʰəˈɾiːə] Wales en /koˈɹiːɐ/ [koˈɹiːɐ] Philippines en chorea general, except <<Indic>> career in fast non-rhotic speech en iːə 3 Proper noun ~ en Q18097en A <<geographic region>> in <<r/East Asia>>, consisting of two <<countries>>, commonly known as South Korea and North Korea; formerly a single country Korea. en 1780 The Hiſtory of Jenghîz Khan's Succeſſors in Tartary and China The Modern Part of an Univerſal History from the Earlieſt Accounts to the Preſent Time https://archive.org/details/modernpartofuniv04londuoft/ IV 297 https://archive.org/details/modernpartofuniv04londuoft/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. en 1954 w:Alben W. Barkley What Happened at Chicago That Reminds Me https://archive.org/details/thatremindsme0000bark/ Garden City, NY w:Doubleday & Company 54-10775 1222881612 6156719M 246 https://archive.org/details/thatremindsme0000bark/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. en informal South Korea: en South Korea Q884. en rare North Korea: en North Korea Q423. en Q483134en peninsula in r/East Asia containing the countries of North Korea and South Korea Korean Peninsula Korea. Derived terms en Best Korea Democratic People's Republic of Korea Juche Korea Korea Bay Korea Passing Koreaboo Koreagate Korean Koreaphile Koreatown North Korea People's Korea People's Republic of Korea Republic of Korea South Korea Worst Korea Descendants kw Korea 1 mn ᠺᠣᠷᠢᠶᠠ South Korea China 1 sw Korea 1 tsg Kuriya 1 cy Corea 1 Translations Q18097 ancient country or both Koreas as a whole Abkhaz: ab Кореа Afrikaans: af Korea Albanian: sq Kore f, sq Koreja f definite Amharic: am ኮርያ Arabic: ar كُورْيَا f, ar كُورِيَا f Hijazi Arabic: acw كوريا f kūrya Aragonese: an Corea f, an Coreya f Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܟܘܿܪܝܼܵܐ f Armenian: hy Կորեա Assamese: as কোৰিয়া Asturian: ast Corea f Azerbaijani: az Koreya Belarusian: be Карэ́я f Bengali: bn কোরিয়া Bikol: Central Bikol: bcl Korea Buginese: bug ᨀᨚᨑᨗᨕ Bulgarian: bg Коре́я f Burmese: my ကိုရီးယား Carpathian Rusyn: rue Коре́я f Catalan: ca Corea f Chinese: Cantonese: yue 高麗 gou1 lai6, yue 朝鮮 ciu4 sin1, ziu1 sin1, yue 韓國 hon4 gwok3 Dungan: dng Чощян Eastern Min: cdo 高麗, cdo 朝鮮, cdo 韓國 Mandarin: cmn 高麗 Gāolí, cmn 朝鮮 Cháoxiǎn, Cháoxiān, Zhāoxiān, cmn 韓國 Wu: wuu 高麗, wuu 朝鮮, wuu 韓國 6ghoe-koq Corsican: co Corea f, co Curea f Crimean Tatar: crh Koreya Czech: cs Korea f Danish: da Korea n Dhivehi: dv ކޮރެއާ Dutch: nl Korea n Esperanto: eo Koreujo, eo Koreio Estonian: et Korea Faroese: fo Korea n Finnish: fi Korea French: fr Corée f Frisian: West Frisian: fy Koreä n Friulian: fur Coree f Galician: gl Corea f Georgian: ka კორეა German: de Korea n Greek: el Κορέα f Gujarati: gu કોરિયા Hawaiian: haw Kōlea Hebrew: he קוֹרֵיאָה f koria Hindi: hi कोरिया m Hungarian: hu Korea Icelandic: is Kórea f Ido: io Korea Indonesian: id Korea Interlingua: ia Corea Irish: ga Cóiré f an Chóiré Italian: it Corea f Japanese: ja 朝鮮 ちょうせん, Chōsen, ja 高麗 こうらい, Kōrai, ja 韓国 かんこく, Kankoku, ja コリア Koria Kalenjin: kln Korea Kamba: kam Korea Kannada: kn ಕೊರಿಯಾ Kashubian: csb Kòreja f Kazakh: kk Корея Khmer: km កូរ៉េ Kikuyu: ki ko Korean: ko ^한국(韓國) South Korea, ko ^조선(朝鮮) chiefly North Korea, dated in South Korea, ko 우리나라 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr Kore, kmr Korea, kmr Qore Kyrgyz: ky Корея Lao: lo ເກົາຫຼີ, lo ເກົາຫລີ Latin: la Corēa f New Latin Latvian: lv Koreja f Lithuanian: lt Korėja f Luhya: luy Korea Luo: luo Korea Macedonian: mk Коре́ја f Malay: ms Korea Malayalam: ml കൊറിയ Maltese: mt Korea il-Korea f Manchu: mnc ᠰᠣᠯᡥᠣ, mnc ᠴᠣᠣᡥᡳᠶᠠᠨ Māori: mi Koria Marathi: mr कोरिया Meru: mer Korea Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Солонгос, mn Гуулин archaic Middle Mongol: xng 莎郎合思 sōlongos Mongolian script: mn ᠰᠣᠯᠤᠩᠭᠤᠰ Navajo: nv Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí Nepali: ne कोरिया Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Korea n Nynorsk: nn Korea n Occitan: oc Corèa f Odia: or କୋରିଆ Okinawan: ryu 高麗 こーれー, Kōrē, ryu 韓国 くゎんくく, Kwankuku Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: cu Корєꙗ f modern Old Turkic: otk 𐰲𐰇𐰞𐰍𐰞 Ossetian: os Корей Pashto: ps کوريا f koryã Persian: Dari: prs کورِیَا Iranian Persian: fa-ira کُرِه Polish: pl Korea f Portuguese: pt Coreia f Punjabi: Gurmukhi: pa ਕੋਰੀਆ m Romanian: ro Coreea f Romansh: rm Corea f Russian: ru Коре́я f Sanskrit: sa कोरिया Sardinian: sc Corea f Scots: sco Korea Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Коре́ја f Latin: sh Koréja f Sicilian: scn Corea f Silesian: szl Koryjo Sinhalese: si කොරියාව Slovak: sk Kórea f Slovene: sl Korêja f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb Koreja f Upper Sorbian: hsb Koreja f Spanish: es Corea f Swahili: sw Korea Swedish: sv Korea n Tagalog: tl Korea Tajik: tg Куриё, tg Корея Tamil: ta கொரியா Tatar: tt Корея Telugu: te కొరియా Thai: th เกาหลี Tibetan: bo ཀོ་རི་ཡ Tigrinya: ti ኮርያ Turkish: tr Kore Ottoman Turkish: ota قوره qore Turkmen: tk Koreýa Ukrainian: uk Коре́я f Urdu: ur کورِیا m Uyghur: ug چاۋشيەن, ug كورىيە Uzbek: uz Koreya Vietnamese: vi Cao Ly (vi 高麗), vi Cao Lệ (vi 高麗), vi Triều Tiên (vi 朝鮮), vi Hàn Quốc (vi 韓國) Welsh: cy Corea West Flemish: vls Korea n Yiddish: yi קאָרעע f Zealandic: zea Korea n Zhuang: za Cauzsenh, za Hanzgoz South Korea North Korea See also Names of Korea Anagrams en aekor keora oaker en exonyms Cornish kw: Etymology kw en Korea, ultimately from kw ko 고려. Pronunciation kw /kɔˈrɛɪ.a/ Proper noun kw propn f kw Korea Q18097 Derived terms kw Korea Dhyghow<t:South Korea> Korea Gledh<t:North Korea> sybwydh Korea<t:Korean firs> Korean,Koreanes<t:Korean><pos:n> Koreek<t:Korean language> koreek<t:Korean><pos:a> koreek dyghow<t:South Korean><pos:a> koreek kledh<t:North Korean><pos:a> Mutation Czech cs: Pronunciation cs Cs-Korea.ogg Proper noun f korejský Korejec Korejka cs Korea Q18097,Q483134 Declension f Related terms cs korejština Jižní Korea Severní Korea Further reading cs exonyms Dutch nl: Etymology Ultimately, from nl ko ^고려. Pronunciation nl /ˌkoːˈreː.aː/ nl Nl-Korea.ogg nl Ko rea Proper noun n nl Korea Q18097,Q483134 Derived terms nl Koreaan nl Koreaoorlog nl Noord-Korea nl Zuid-Korea Faroese fo: thumb|Korea Etymology Ultimately, from fo ko ^고려. Pronunciation fo /kʰoˈɹeː.a/ Proper noun fo proper noun n fo Korea Q18097,Q483134 Declension Korea Korea Korea Korea Derived terms fo koreanskur fo Norðurkorea fo Suðurkorea fo exonyms Finnish Etymology From fi ko ^고려. Pronunciation korea Proper noun fi Korea Q18097 fi Etelä-Korea<t:South Korea> Pohjois-Korea<t:North Korea> fi Korea Q483134 fi Korean niemimaa<t:Korean Peninsula> Usage notes Plural may be used of North and South Korea collectively. Declension Kore a Derived terms fi korea<qq:language> korealainen Korean niemimaa fi compounds Etelä-Korea koreanjindonkoira koreankielinen koreanmastiffi koreanminttu Koreansalmi Pohjois-Korea See also fi korea senses beautiful or chorea fi exonyms German de: Pronunciation de /koˈʁeːaː/ de De-Korea.ogg de De-Korea2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun de proper noun n genitive Koreas plural Korea de Korea Q18097,Q483134 Usage notes The plural refers to both de Südkorea (de Republik Korea) and de Nordkorea (de Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea), and does occur in forms like "die beiden Korea". Further reading de exonyms Hungarian Pronunciation kórea hu ɒ 3 hu Ko rea Ko re a Proper noun hu proper noun hu Korea Q18097,Q483134 Declension Koreá o sgKoreá sg Derived terms hu koreai hu Compound words Dél-Korea Észak-Korea Indonesian id: Etymology From id ms Korea, ultimately from Sino-id ko ^고려(高麗). Pronunciation Koréa Proper noun Koréa id Korea Q18097,Q483134 Compounds id Korea Utara Korea Selatan Further reading Malay ms: Etymology Ultimately from Sino-ms ko ^고려(高麗). Pronunciation Koréa Baku Korɪ.a colloquial,_,Malaysia,-,Singapore Kori.e Johor 2 ms ia 3 ms Ko rea Proper noun کوريا ms Korea Q18097,Q483134 Derived terms ms bahasa Korea Korea Selatan Korea Utara Semenanjung Korea Descendants id Korea Further reading Norwegian Bokmål no: Etymology From nb ko ^고려. Proper noun nb proper noun nb Korea Q18097,Q483134 Related terms nb Nord-Korea, nb Sør-Korea nb koreaner, nb nordkoreaner, nb sørkoreaner nb koreansk, nb nordkoreansk, nb sørkoreansk no exonyms Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Etymology From nn ko ^고려. Proper noun nn proper noun nn Korea Q18097,Q483134 Related terms nn Nord-Korea, nn Sør-Korea nn korean, nn koreanar, nn nordkorean, nn nordkoreanar, nn sørkorean, nn sørkoreanar nn koreansk, nn nordkoreansk, nn sørkoreansk Polish thumb|Map of Korea Etymology pl :der ko:^고려 + 1 Pronunciation Pl-Korea.ogg;LL-Q809 (pol)-Poemat-Korea.wav Proper noun f pl Korea Q18097,Q483134 Declension Korea Koree Korei Korei Korei Koreom Koreę Koree Koreą Koreami Korei Koreach Koreo Koree Derived terms pl Koreańczyk Koreanka koreański Related terms pl Korea Południowa Korea Północna See also pl Półwysep Koreański Further reading pl exonyms Swahili Pronunciation korea sw Sw-ke-Korea.flac Kenya Proper noun sw proper noun sw Korea Q18097,Q483134 Derived terms sw Korea ya Kaskazini sw Korea ya Kusini Swedish Etymology From sv ko ^고려. Pronunciation sv /kʊ²reːa/ sv ²eːa 3 Proper noun n sv Korea Q18097,Q483134 See also sv Nordkorea sv Sydkorea sv korean sv koreansk sv koreanska References saol Svensk MeSH Anagrams sv aekor arkeo- sv exonyms Tagalog Etymology tl es Corea. Ultimately from tl ko ^고려(高麗). Pronunciation +<hmp:Correa,korea> Koriya<qq:English influence> Ko.re.a Proper noun Koreya tl Korea Q18097,Q483134 Derived terms tl Korean Koreano Koreana Hilagang Korea Timog Korea Further reading