Korea

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Korea

Wikipedia

• Corea (now rare)

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) 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).

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/,
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹiːə/,
• Homophones: chorea (general), career (in fast non-rhotic speech)
• Rhymes: -iːə

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Korea (countable and uncountable, plural Koreas)

2. 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, 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, 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.

   1. Short for the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
   2. (recently less common) Short for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
3. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (historical) A dependency of Japan (1910–1945).

• → Welsh: Corea

• Names of Korea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• keora, oaker

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Korea

Wikipedia ^cs

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Korea f (related adjective korejský, demonym Korejec, female demonym Korejka)

1. Korea (two countries in East Asia, North Korea and South Korea)

• “Korea”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Korea”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Korea”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Korea

Wikipedia ^nl

Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoːˈreː.aː/

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• Hyphenation: Ko‧rea

Korea n

1. Korea

• Koreaan
• Koreaoorlog
• Noord-Korea
• Zuid-Korea

Faroese Wikipedia has an article on:

Korea

Wikipedia ^fo

Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /kʰoˈɹeː.a/

Korea n

1. Korea

• koreanskur
• Norðurkorea
• Suðurkorea

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoreɑ/,
• Rhymes: -oreɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): Ko‧rea

Korea

1. Korea (ancient country)
2. Korea (either of the two current Korean states)
3. Korea (Korean peninsula)

• Plural may be used of North and South Korea collectively.

• (current state): Etelä-Korea, Pohjois-Korea
• (peninsula): Korean niemimaa

• korea (senses beautiful or chorea)

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Korea

Wikipedia ^de

• IPA^(key): /koˈʁeːaː/

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Korea n (genitive Koreas, plural Korea)

1. Korea

• The plural refers to both Südkorea (Republik Korea) and Nordkorea (Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea), and does occur in forms like "die beiden Korea".

• “Korea” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: Ko‧rea
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Korea

1. Korea (ancient country)
2. Korea (either of the two current Korean states)

• koreai

(Compound words):

• Dél-Korea
• Észak-Korea

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Korea

Wikipedia ^id

From Malay Korea, ultimately from Sino-Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /koˈrea/
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: Ko‧re‧a

Koréa

1. Korea

• “Korea” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

Korea

Wikipedia ^ms

Ultimately from Sino-Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo).

• (Johor) IPA^(key): /koˈriə/

• (Penang, Riau-Lingga, Baku) IPA^(key): /koˈria/
• Rhymes: -ia

Korea (Jawi spelling کوريا)

1. Korea

• Indonesian: Korea

• “Korea” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Korea

Wikipedia ^no

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Korea

1. Korea (region and former country in East Asia, now divided into North Korea and South Korea)

• Nord-Korea, Sør-Korea
• koreaner, nordkoreaner, sørkoreaner
• koreansk, nordkoreansk, sørkoreansk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Korea

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Korea

1. Korea (region and former country in East Asia, now divided into North Korea and South Korea)

• Nord-Korea, Sør-Korea
• korean, koreanar, nordkorean, nordkoreanar, sørkorean, sørkoreanar
• koreansk, nordkoreansk, sørkoreansk

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈrɛ.a/

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• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Syllabification: Ko‧re‧a

Korea f

1. (historical) Korea (“an ancient country in East Asia”)
2. (informal) Korea (two countries in East Asia, North Korea and South Korea)

• Półwysep Koreański

• Korea in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Korea in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Audio (Kenya):

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Korea

1. Korea

• Korea ya Kaskazini
• Korea ya Kusini

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /kʊ²reːa/
• Rhymes: -²eːa

Korea n (genitive Koreas)

1. Korea

• Nordkorea
• Sydkorea
• korean
• koreansk
• koreanska

• Korea in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

• arkeo-

Borrowed from Spanish Corea. Ultimately from Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo).

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /koˈɾea/
    • Rhymes: -ea
    • Homophones: Correa, korea
  • IPA^(key): /koˈɾia/ (English influence)
    • Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: Ko‧re‧a

Korea (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇᜒᜌ)

1. Korea (ancient country)
2. Korea (either of the two current Korean states)

• “Korea”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018