갈기다

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Korean

Etymology

First attested in the Beonyeok Bak Tongsa (飜譯朴通事 / 번역박통사), before 1517, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞᆯ기다 (Yale: kolki-ta).

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?galgida
Revised Romanization (translit.)?galgida
McCune–Reischauer?kalgida
Yale Romanization?kal.kita

Verb

갈기다 (galgida) (infinitive 갈겨 or 갈기어, sequential 갈기니) (transitive, usually informal)

  1. to hit, to slap, to slash, to strike, to thrash; to lash, to whip
  2. to scrawl, to scribble
  3. to fire (a gun) indiscriminately
  4. to urinate or defecate (somewhere inappropriate)

Conjugation