읊다

First attested in the Seonjong yeonggajip eonhae (禪宗永嘉集諺解 / 선종영가집언해), 1456, as Middle Korean 잎다〮 (Yale: ìphtá), but the Modern Korean form with the final /-lp/ cluster (first attested in the seventeenth century, probably reflecting a dialectal form that eventually became dominant) is likely the more conservative form.

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읊다 • (eupda) (infinitive 읊어, sequential 읊으니) (transitive)

1. (of poems) to recite

   시를 읊다 ― si-reul eupda ― to recite poetry

   • 1812, “Song 247”, in 청구영언 장서각본/靑丘永言藏書閣本 [Jangseogak edition of the Cheonggu yeong'eon]:

     酒(쥬)色(ᄉᆡᆨ)을 삼가란 말이 녯사ᄅᆞᆷ의 警(경)誡(계)로되 / 踏(답)靑(쳥) 登(등)高(고)節(졀)에 벗님네 ᄃᆞ리고 詩(시)句(구)를 읇흘 제 滿(만)樽(쥰)香(향)醪(료)를 아니 醉(취)코 어이 ᄒᆞ며 / 旅(녀)館(관)에 寒(한)燈(등)을 對(ᄃᆡ)ᄒᆞ여 獨(독)不(불)眠(면)ᄒᆞᆯ 적의 玉(옥)人(인)을 만나 아니 자고 어이 ᄒᆞ리

     jyusaeg-eul samgaran mar-i nyetsaram-ui gyeonggye-rodoe / dapchyeong deunggojyeor-e beonnim-ne darigo sigu-reul eulpeul je manjyunhyangnyo-reul ani chwiko eoi hamyeo / nyeogwan-e handeung-eul daehayeo dokbulmyeonhal jeog-ui ogin-eul manna ani jago eoi hari

     Though it is the warning of the old to refrain from women and wine / when I recite poems with my friends on the Double Third and Double Ninth, with a gobletful of fragrant wine about, what could I do if not get drunk / and when I face the cold lamps at some inn—alone unable to sleep—and I meet a jade-like beauty then, what could I do if not sleep with her?

2. (literary) to compose poetry about

   사랑을 읊다 ― sarang-eul eupda ― to write poems of love (literally, “to write poetry which deals with love”)