대령

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Korean

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?daeryeong
Revised Romanization (translit.)?daelyeong
McCune–Reischauer?taeryŏng
Yale Romanization?tāylyeng

Etymology 1

Sino-Korean word from 待令 (to wait for the order).

Noun

대령 (daeryeong) (hanja 待令)

  1. waiting for an order; waiting for the command to fall
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Korean word from (great) + (colonel, officer).

Noun

대령 (daeryeong) (hanja 大領)

  1. (military) colonel; (in the navy) captain
See also

Etymology 3

Sino-Korean word from (great) + (soul, spirit).

Noun

대령 (daeryeong) (hanja 大靈)

  1. (religion) oversoul; fundamental spirit of the cosmos
  2. (honorific, shamanism) deity, divinity

Etymology 4

Sino-Korean word from 對靈.

Noun

대령 (daeryeong) (hanja 對靈)

  1. (Buddhism) Buddhist funerary ritual, dispatching the deceased soul to the afterlife

Etymology 5

Sino-Korean word from 大嶺, from (great) + (pass).

Proper noun

대령 (Daeryeong) (hanja 大嶺)

  1. Synonym of 대관령(大關嶺) (daegwallyeong, Daegwallyeong pass)