바닥

From Middle Korean 바다ᇰ〮 (pàtáng). Cognate to Korean 바닥 (badak)

• (Morphophonemic) IPA^(key): ⫽patak⫽
• (Jeju City) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

바닥 (badak)

1. bottom, floor

• “바닥” in Jeju's culture and language, Digital museum.
• 제주 문화 예술 재단 [jeju munhwa yesul jaedan] (2009) “바닥”, in 개정 증보 제주어 사전 [gaejeong jeungbo jejueo sajeon], 제주 특별 자치도 [jeju teukbyeol jachido], →ISBN, page 414

• (Busan) IPA^(key):

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

• South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 바닥의 / 바닥에 / 바닥까지

  Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes high pitch only on the first syllable, and lowers the pitch of subsequent suffixes.

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 바다ᇰ〮 (Yale: pàtáng). In the Early Modern era, the form was supplanted by modern 바닥 (badak), which may originally have been dialectal; Korean dialects often variably have coda /k~ŋ~j~h/, probably from ancestral */-k/.

바다 (bada, “sea, ocean”) may originally have been a semantic extension of this word.^[1] Beyond Koreanic, probably related to Manchu ᡶ‍ᠠᡨᠠᠨ (f‍atan, “sole of the foot”),^[2] which is quite possibly a Korean borrowing into Jurchen or Manchu given the apparent lack of clear Tungusic cognates.

바닥 • (badak)

1. floor; bottom; a flat and usually low surface of a space or object

   신발 바닥 ― sinbal badak ― bottom of the shoes, sole of the shoes

   혓바닥 ― hyeotbadak ― surface of the tongue

   책이 바닥에 떨어지다 ― chaeg-i badag-e tteoreojida ― for the book to fall to the floor

   • 1704 (publ. 1721), 洪啓英/홍계영, “喜雪 / 희설”, in 觀水齋遺稿 / 관수재유고:

     바닥 업슨 신을 신고 雪(셜)裏(리)의 徘(ᄇᆡ)徊(회)ᄒᆞ니 […]

     badak eopseun sin-eul sin'go syeolli-ui baehoehani

     as I wander about in the midst of the snow, wearing shoes that have no soles

   • c. 1790, 樂學拾零 (Akhak Seumnyeong) [Tidbits of the Musical Sciences]:

     싀어마님 며ᄂᆞ리 낫바 벽바닥을 구로지 마오

     suieomanim myeoneuri natba byeokbadag-eul guroji mao

     Mother-in-law, do not stamp your feet against the bottom of the wall out of how terrible your daughter-in-law is.

   • 1942 (publ. 1948), Yun Dong-ju, “참회록 [chamhoerok]”, in 하늘과 바람과 별과 시 [haneulgwa baramgwa byeolgwa si, Sky, Wind, and Stars]:

     밤이면 밤마다 나의 거울을 손바닥으로 발바닥으로 닦아 보자.

     Bam-imyeon bammada na-ui geour-eul sonbadag-euro balbadag-euro dakka boja.

     When it is night, at every night, let me polish my mirror with my palms and my soles.

   • 2021, “버스서 5만원 든 지갑주운 20대... CCTV 덕에 무죄 [beoseuseo 5manwon deun jigapjuun 20dae... CCTV deoge mujoe, Man in 20s picks up wallet with 50k\ bills in bus, found innocent thanks to security camera]”, in The Chosun Ilbo‎:

     지갑이 바닥에 떨어졌고, 지갑을 주우려고 하다 의자 밑으로 들어가는 바람에 그냥 버스에서 내렸다고 진술했다.

     Jigab-i badag-e tteoreojeotgo, jigab-eul juuryeogo hada uija mit-euro deureoganeun baram-e geunyang beoseu-eseo naeryeotdago jinsulhaetda.

     He testified that the wallet had fallen to the floor, and that it went under the chair when he tried to pick it up, so he just left the bus.

2. (figurative) rock bottom
3. (colloquial) area, region

   서울 바닥 ― Seoul badak ― Seoul; the area of Seoul

4. (uncommon) the weave of fabric

(idioms)

(compounds)

바닥 • (badak)

1. (southeastern Gyeongsang) page of paper

   Synonyms: 쪽 (jjok), 페이지 (peiji)

   책 한 바닥 ― chaek han badak ― a page of a book

See the main entry at 바다 (bada). Probably the most conservative form of this word.

바닥 • (badak)

1. (southern Gyeongsang, southern Jeolla dialect) Dialectal form of 바다 (bada, “sea; ocean”).