새우다

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:

새 (sae-) + 우 (-u-, causative suffix) + 다 (-da, suffix conventionally given for citation forms).

From Early Modern Korean 새오다 (saywota), ᄉᆡ오다 (soywota).

새우다 • (sae'uda) (infinitive 새워, sequential 새우니)

1. (transitive) to stay up all night

   Synonyms: 밝히다 (balkida), (proscribed) 새다 (saeda)

   밤을 새우다 ― bam-eul sae'uda ― to stay up night

   • 1812, “Song 330”, in 청구영언 장서각본/靑丘永言藏書閣本 [Jangseogak edition of the Cheonggu yeong'eon]:

     울며 ᄌᆞᆸ은 ᄉᆞᄆᆡ ᄯᅥᆯ치고 가지 마소 / 草(초)原(원) 長(쟝)程(졍)에 ᄒᆡ 다 져무럿ᄂᆡ / 客(ᄀᆡᆨ)窓(창)에 殘(잔)燈(등) 도도고 새와 보면 알리라

     ulmyeo jabeun samae tteolchigo gaji maso / chowon jyangjyeong-e hae da jyeomureonnae / gaekchang-e jandeung dodogo saewa bomyeon allira

     Do not shake off the sleeves that I have grabbed onto, weeping, and leave! The sun has all but set on the long path on the grassy field; when you stay up the night, raising a dying lamp before the window of some inn, you will know .

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 새오〮다〮 (Yale: sàyGwó-tá).

새우다 • (sae'uda) (infinitive 새워, sequential 새우니)

1. (transitive) to envy

• 샘 (saem, “envy”)