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Chinese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
First attested in the Records of the Three Kingdoms (c. 290 CE) as 斯盧/斯卢 (OC *se b·raː, MC siᴇ luo) as in 斯盧國 (“Saro state”), one of the 12 statelets belonging to the Jinhan confederacy.
Other old variations include 新盧/新卢 (OC *siŋ b·raː, MC siɪn luo) and 斯羅/斯罗 (OC *se raːl, MC siᴇ lɑ).
In Old Korean documents, those country names were equated with the name of the capital, 徐羅伐 (Syerapel, “Seorabeol”, modern Gyeongju), a compound of 徐羅 (syera) + 伐 (pel, “village”). Other variants include 徐那伐 (syenapel), 徐耶伐 (syeyapel) and 徐伐 (syepel), whence 서울 (seoul, “capital city”).
徐 (sye), the first syllable of 徐羅 is considered to mean “gold” because of 금성 (金城, geumseong, “gold castle/city/fort”), the sinicized name of the capital city (cf. 쇠 (soe), “iron, metal”). The second syllable 羅 (ra) is according to one theory a connective particle, but another theory posits that it means “land”.
Proper noun
新羅
- Silla (one of the ancient Three Kingdoms of Korea)
Coordinate terms
Etymology 2
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new; newly; meso- (chem.)
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to collect; to gather; to catch to collect; to gather; to catch; to shift; gauze
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trad. (新羅)
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新
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羅
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simp. (新罗)
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新
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罗
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Proper noun
新羅
- (~區) Xinluo (a district of Longyan, Fujian, China)
References
Japanese
Etymology 1
⟨siraki2⟩ → */sirakɨ/ → /ɕiraɡi/
Shift from Old Japanese 新羅 (Siraki2).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
新羅 • (Shiragi)
- Silla (ancient Korean kingdom)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From the Middle Chinese-derived reading of the kanji characters.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
新羅 • (Shinra)
- Silla (ancient Korean kingdom)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ “しらぎ 【新羅】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
- ^ “しんら 【新羅】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
Korean
Proper noun
新羅 • (Silla) (hangeul 신라)
- Hanja form? of 신라 (“Silla”).
Old Japanese
Etymology
Shiratori (1896) derived this word from Old Korean 徐羅城 (*Syera-KUY), reconstructed from 徐羅 (syera) as in 徐羅伐 (Syerapel, “Seorabeol”, its capital city, present day Gyeongju) or 斯羅 (MC sje la), an older name of Silla; and Old Japanese 城 (ki2, “fortress, castle”) considered as borrowed from Baekje 己 (kuy), from Goguryeo 忽 (kol(o)) and older form 溝婁/沟娄 (kwurwu, OC *koː ɡ·roː/ɡ·ro, MC kəu lɨo|ləu), equated with Old Korean 伐 (pel, “village”).
Aisin-Gioro (2009) proposed that there are also similar exonyms for Korea, made from the same configuration, Old Turkic 𐰲𐰇𐰞𐰍𐰞 (čölgl, “Silla”), Jurchen solgor (“Goryeo”, whence cognate with Manchu ᠰᠣᠯᡥᠣ (solho), “Korea”), and borrowed as Mongolian Солго (Solgo, “Korea”) and Middle Mongol 莎郎合思 (Solangqas, “Goryeo”, whence cognate with Mongolian Солонгос (Solongos), “Korea”), as being related to *Syera-kuy, and Khitan 𘬥𘲀𘭲𘮒 (*ś ul ó úr, “Silla, Goryeo”) as a descendant of 徐羅伐 (Syera-pel).
Proper noun
新羅 (Siraki₂) (kana しらき)
- Silla (ancient Korean kingdom)
c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3696:新羅奇敞可伊敞爾可加反流由吉能之麻由加牟多登伎毛於毛比可禰都母- Siraki₂-pe₁ ka ipe₁ ni ka kape₁ru Yuki₁-no₂-sima yukamu tado₂ki₁ mo omopi₁kanetu mo
- Returning to my house in Silla, I still have no clue about whether I should depart from the island of Yuki.
Coordinate terms
Descendants
References
- ^ according to 白鳥庫吉全集〈第3巻〉朝鮮史研究, 1970, first published in Shiratori, Kurakichi (1896) “朝鮮古代王號考”, in 史學雜誌, volume 7, 史學會 (The Historical Society of Japan)
- ^ Mabuchi, Kazuhito (1978) “『三国史記』記載の百済地名より見た古代百済語の考察 (On the Ancient Language of Kudara as Reflected in Kudara Place Names in the Sangokushiki)”, in 文藝言語研究. 言語篇 3, archived from the original on 17 April 2019, page 79
- ^ Aisin-Gioro, Ulhicun (2009) 愛新覚羅烏拉熙春女真契丹学研究, →ISBN, page 47
- ^ Aisin-Gioro, Ulhicun (2011) 韓半島から眺めた契丹・女真, 京都大学学術出版会 (Kyoto University Press), →ISBN, archived from the original on 19 August 2019
Vietnamese
Proper noun
新羅
- chữ Hán form of Tân La (“Silla”).