Korea

See also: korea and Kórea

English

Location of Korea

Alternative forms

• Corea (now rare)

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/, [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪə/, [kʰɵˈɹɪə]
• Homophone: career (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -iːə

Proper noun

Korea (plural Koreas)

1. An ancient country in East Asia. Since World War II, Korea has been divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea in the US, or Korea and North Korea in the UK.
2. An informal name for the Republic of Korea (South Korea) or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
3. Informal term for the Korean Peninsula

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Best Korea
• Korean

• North Korea
• South Korea

Translations

ancient country or both Koreas as a whole

• Abkhaz: Кореа (Ḳoreā)
• Afrikaans: Korea
• Albanian: Kore f
• Amharic: ኮርያ (korya)
• Arabic: كُورِيَا‏‎ f (kōriyā)
• Armenian: Կորեա (Korea)
• Asturian: Corea (ast) f
• Azeri: Koreya
• Belarusian: Карэ́я f (Karéja)
• Bengali: কোরিয়া (koriya)
• Buginese: ᨀᨚᨑᨗᨕ
• Bulgarian: Коре́я f (Koréja)
• Burmese: ကိုရီးယား (kuiri:ya:)
• Catalan: Corea f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 高麗, 高丽 (gou¹ lai⁶), 朝鮮, 朝鲜 (ciu⁴ sin¹, ziu¹ sin¹)

  Mandarin: 高麗 (zh), 高丽 (zh) (Gāolí), 朝鮮 (zh), 朝鲜 (zh) (Cháoxiǎn, Cháoxiān, Zhāoxiān), 韓國 (zh), 韩国 (zh) (Hánguó)

• Czech: Korea (cs) f
• Danish: Korea
• Dhivehi: ކޮރެއާ‏‎ (koreā)
• Dutch: Korea (nl)
• Esperanto: Koreujo
• Estonian: Korea (et)
• Faroese: Korea n
• Finnish: Korea (fi)
• French: Corée (fr) f
• Georgian: კორეა (ḳorea)
• German: Korea (de) n
• Greek: Κορέα (el) f (Koréa)
• Gujarati: કોરિયા (koriyā)
• Hawaiian: Kōlea
• Hebrew: קוֹרֵיאָה‏‎ f (koria)
• Hindi: कोरिया (hi) m (koriyā)
• Hungarian: Korea (hu)
• Icelandic: Kórea (is) f
• Ido: Korea (io)
• Indonesian: Korea (id)
• Interlingua: Corea
• Irish: An Chóiré f
• Italian: Corea (it) f
• Japanese: 朝鮮 (ja) (ちょうせん, Chōsen), 高麗 (こうらい, Kōrai), 韓国 (ja) (かんこく, Kankoku), コリア (Koria)
• Kalenjin: Korea
• Kamba: Korea
• Kannada: ಕೊರಿಯಾ (koriyā)
• Kashubian: Kòreja f
• Kazakh: Корея (Koreya)
• Khmer: កូរ៉េ (km) (kōrē)
• Kikuyu: ko
• Korean: 고려 (Goryeo), 조선 (Joseon), 한국 (Han-guk), 코리아 (Koria), 우리나라 (ko) (urinara)
• Kyrgyz: Корея (Koreya)
• Lao: ເກົາຫລີ (kao lī)
• Latin: Corea (la) f
• Latvian: Koreja f
• Lithuanian: Korėja (lt) f
• Luhya: Korea

• Luo: Korea
• Macedonian: Коре́ја (mk) f (Koréja)
• Malay: Korea
• Malayalam: കൊറിയ (koṟiya)
• Maltese: il-Korea f
• Maori: Koria
• Marathi: कोरिया (koriyā)
• Meru: Korea
• Mongolian: Солонгос (mn) (Solongos)
• Navajo: Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí
• Nepali: कोरिया (koriyā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Korea

• Oriya: କୋରିଆ (kōri'ā)
• Ossetian: Корей (Korej)
• Pashto: کوريا‏‎
• Persian: کره‏‎ (fa) (kore)
• Polish: Korea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Coreia f
• Punjabi: ਕੋਰੀਆ (korīā)
• Romanian: Coreea f
• Romansch: Corea f
• Russian: Коре́я (ru) f (Koréja)
• Sanskrit: कोरिया (koriyā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Коре́ја f

  Roman: Koréja (sh) f

• Silesian: Koryjo
• Sinhalese: කොරියාව (koriyāva)
• Slovak: Kórea f
• Slovene: Korêja (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Koreja f

  Upper Sorbian: Koreja f

• Spanish: Corea (es) f
• Swahili: Korea
• Swedish: Korea (sv)
• Tagalog: Korea
• Tajik: Қурия (Quriya), Корея (tg) (Koreya)
• Tamil: கொரியா (ta) (koriyā)
• Tatar: Корея (Qoreya)
• Telugu: కొరియా (te) (koriyā)
• Thai: เกาหลี (th) (gao-lǐi)
• Tibetan: ཀོ་རི་ཡ (ko ri ya)
• Turkish: Kore (tr)
• Turkmen: Koreýa
• Ukrainian: Коре́я f (Koréja)
• Urdu: کوریا‏‎ m (koriyā)
• Uyghur: چاۋشيەن‏‎ (chawshyen)
• Uzbek: Koreya
• Vietnamese: Cao Li, Cao Lệ, Triều Tiên (vi), Hàn Quốc (vi)
• Welsh: Corea
• Yiddish: קאָרעע‏‎ (koree)
• Zhuang: Cauzsenh, Hanzgoz

South Korea — see South Korea

North Korea — see North Korea

See also

• Names of Korea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• oaker

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Czech

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Korea f

1. Korea

Related terms

• korejský
• korejština
• Korejec
• Korejka
• Jižní Korea
• Severní Korea

Further reading

• Korea in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Korea in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Faroese

Korea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰoˈɹeː.a/

Etymology

Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Proper noun

Korea n

1. Korea

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Korea
Accusative	Korea
Dative	Korea
Genitive	Korea

Derived terms

• koreanskur
• Norðurkorea
• Suðurkorea

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Finnish

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Noun

Korea

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

Declension

Inflection of Korea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Korea	Koreat
genitive		Korean	Koreoiden Koreoitten
partitive		Koreaa	Koreoita
illative		Koreaan	Koreoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Korea	Koreat
accusative	nom.	Korea	Koreat
	gen.	Korean
genitive		Korean	Koreoiden Koreoitten Koreainrare
partitive		Koreaa	Koreoita
inessive		Koreassa	Koreoissa
elative		Koreasta	Koreoista
illative		Koreaan	Koreoihin
adessive		Korealla	Koreoilla
ablative		Korealta	Koreoilta
allative		Korealle	Koreoille
essive		Koreana	Koreoina
translative		Koreaksi	Koreoiksi
instructive		—	Koreoin
abessive		Koreatta	Koreoitta
comitative		—	Koreoineen

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• Etelä-Korea
• eteläkorealainen

• korea (language)
• korealainen

• koreankielinen
• Korean niemimaa

• Pohjois-Korea
• pohjoiskorealainen

See also

• korea (senses beautiful or chorea)

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈʀeːaː/

• audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Korea n (genitive Koreas, plural Korea)

1. Korea

Usage notes

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Proper noun

Korea

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

Related terms

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Proper noun

Korea

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

Related terms

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

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Polish

Map of Korea

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈrɛa/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Korea f

1. (historical) Korea (“an ancient country in East Asia”)
2. (informal) Korea (“an informal name for the South Korea or North Korea”)

Declension

declension of Korea

	singular	plural
nominative	Korea	Koree
genitive	Korei	Korei
dative	Korei	Koreom
accusative	Koreę	Koree
instrumental	Koreą	Koreami
locative	Korei	Koreach
vocative	Koreo	Koree

Derived terms

• Koreańczyk
• Koreanka
• koreański

Related terms

• Korea Południowa
• Korea Północna

See also

• Półwysep Koreański

Further reading

• Korea in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• WSJP, hasło Korea

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Swahili

Proper noun

Korea

1. Korea

Derived terms

• Korea ya Kaskazini
• Korea ya Kusini

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Swedish

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Proper noun

Korea n (genitive Koreas)

1. Korea

See also

• Nordkorea
• Sydkorea
• korean
• koreansk
• koreanska