공수

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Korean

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gongsu
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gongsu
McCune–Reischauer?kongsu
Yale Romanization?kōngswu

Noun

공수 • (gongsu) (hanja 空輸)

  1. air transportation
  2. Short for 공수부대 (gongsubudae, “airborne troops”).
    11공수 여단 서울에서 광주로 이동.
    11gongsu yeodan seoureseo gwangjuro idong.
    The 11th Airborne Brigade was deployed from Seoul to Gwangju.

Etymology 2

Of native Korean origin.

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gongsu
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gongsu
McCune–Reischauer?kongsu
Yale Romanization?kongswu

Noun

공수 • (gongsu)

  1. (shamanism) speech uttered by a Korean shaman in a trance state, thought to be from a deity or ancestor who has possessed the shaman
Hyponyms

Usage notes

The conventional English translation in academia is "inspired speech".

The verb 주다 (juda, “to give”) is used to refer to the god "giving" the speech to the shaman; the verb 받다 (batda, “to receive”) is used to refer to the shaman "receiving" the speech; the verb 내리다 (naerida, “to give to subordinates”) is used to refer to the shaman "giving" the god's message to the worshippers.

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