Korea

See also: korea and Kórea

English

Location of Korea

Alternative forms

• Corea (now rare)

Etymology

First attested as Core in the 1598 English translation of the 1596 Itinerario of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, from the original Dutch Core, itself from Portuguese according to van Linschoten's account.

Ultimately a sixteenth-century borrowing by Europeans from some variety of Chinese—perhaps specifically Mandarin 高麗／高丽 (Gāolí)—after Sino-Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo), which was Korea's official name between 918 and 1394 and continued to be commonly used by Chinese people to refer to the country for centuries thereafter. This was itself a shortening of 高句麗／高句丽 (“Goguryeo”), an ancient Korean kingdom in the first millennium. Doublet of Goryeo, directly from Korean.

The earliest form in Europe was probably William of Rubruck's Medieval Latin Caule (clearly from Early Mandarin), but this is not ancestral to the modern European names. Some Korean authors claim an Arabic intermediary instead, but the actual medieval Arabic word for Korea was a variant of السيلى‎ (al-sīlā, see also Silla).

The spelling Corea was more common in Early Modern English.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK)

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Proper noun

Korea (countable and uncountable, plural Koreas)

2. A nation in East Asia. Since World War II, Korea has been divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea.
3. (informal) The Republic of Korea (South Korea).
4. (informal) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
6. (informal) 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 (Ḳorea)
• Afrikaans: Korea
• Albanian: Kore f
• Amharic: ኮርያ (korya)
• Arabic: كُوريَا‎ f, كُوريَا‎ f (kōriyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: كوريا‎ f (kūrya)

• Armenian: Կորեա (hy) (Korea)
• Asturian: Corea (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Koreya
• Belarusian: Карэ́я f (Karéja)
• Bengali: কোরিয়া (koriẏa)
• Buginese: ᨀᨚᨑᨗᨕ
• Bulgarian: Коре́я f (Koréja)
• Burmese: ကိုရီးယား (kuiri:ya:)
• Catalan: Corea f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 高麗 (yue), 高丽 (gou¹ lai⁶), 朝鮮 (yue), 朝鲜 (ciu⁴ sin¹, ziu¹ sin¹), 韓國 (yue), 韩国 (hon⁴ gwok³)

  Dungan: Чощян (Čoxi͡an)

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

• Corsican: Corea f, Curea f
• Crimean Tatar: Koreya
• Czech: Korea (cs) f
• Danish: Korea
• Dhivehi: ކޮރެއާ‎ (koreā)
• Dutch: Korea (nl)
• Esperanto: Koreujo, Koreio
• Estonian: Korea (et)
• Faroese: Korea n
• Finnish: Korea (fi)
• French: Corée (fr) f
• Friulian: Coree f
• Galician: Corea (gl)
• 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) (kouree)
• Kikuyu: ko
• Korean: 한국(韓國) (ko) (Han'guk) (South Korea), 조선(朝鮮) (ko) (Joseon) (chiefly North Korea, dated in South Korea), 우리나라 (ko) (urinara), 코리아 (ko) (koria)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Kore (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Корея (Qoreya)
• Lao: ເກົາຫຼີ (kao lī), 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
• Manchu: ᠰᠣᠯᡥᠣ (solho), ᠴᠣᠣᡥᡳᠶᠠᠨ (coohiyan)
• Maori: Koria
• Marathi: कोरिया (koriyā)
• Meru: Korea
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Солонгос (mn) (Solongos), Гуулин (mn) (Guulin) (archaic)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠣᠯᠤᠩᠭᠤᠰ (solungɣus)

• Navajo: Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí
• Nepali: कोरिया (koriyā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Korea

• Occitan: Corèa f
• Okinawan: 高麗 (こーれー, Kōrē), 韓国 (くゎんくく, Kwankuku)
• Oriya: କୋରିଆ (koria)
• Ossetian: Корей (Korej)
• Pashto: کوريا‎ f (koryã)
• Persian: کره‎ (fa) (kore)
• Polish: Korea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Coreia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਕੋਰੀਆ (korīā)
• Romanian: Coreea f
• Romansch: Corea f
• Russian: Коре́я (ru) f (Koréja)
• Rusyn: Коре́я f (Koréja)
• Sanskrit: कोरिया (koriyā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Коре́ја f

  Roman: Koréja (sh) f

• Silesian: Koryjo
• Sinhalese: කොරියාව (koriyāwa)
• 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) n
• 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), كورىيە‎ (koriye)
• Uzbek: Koreya
• Vietnamese: Cao Ly (高麗), Cao Lệ (高麗), Triều Tiên (vi) (朝鮮), Hàn Quốc (vi) (韓國)
• 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

• keora, oaker

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkorea/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Korea f

1. Korea

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	Korea	Koreje
genitive	Koreje, Korey	Korejí
dative	Koreji	Korejím
accusative	Koreu	Koreje
vocative	Koreo	Koreje
locative	Koreji	Korejích
instrumental	Korejí, Koreou	Korejemi

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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Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoːˈreː.aː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Ko‧rea

Proper noun

Korea n

1. Korea

Derived terms

• Koreaan
• Koreaoorlog
• Noord-Korea
• Zuid-Korea

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Faroese

Korea

Etymology

Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰoˈɹeː.a/

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)

Usage notes

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

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

Possessive forms of Korea (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Koreani	Koreamme
2nd person	Koreasi	Koreanne
3rd person	Koreansa

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): /koˈʁeːaː/

• audio

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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".

Further reading

• “Korea” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkorɛɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ko‧rea
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Proper noun

Korea

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Korea	—
accusative	Koreát	—
dative	Koreának	—
instrumental	Koreával	—
causal-final	Koreáért	—
translative	Koreává	—
terminative	Koreáig	—
essive-formal	Koreaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Koreában	—
superessive	Koreán	—
adessive	Koreánál	—
illative	Koreába	—
sublative	Koreára	—
allative	Koreához	—
elative	Koreából	—
delative	Koreáról	—
ablative	Koreától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Koreáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Koreáéi	—

Possessive forms of Korea
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Koreám	—
2nd person sing.	Koreád	—
3rd person sing.	Koreája	—
1st person plural	Koreánk	—
2nd person plural	Koreátok	—
3rd person plural	Koreájuk	—

Derived terms

• koreai

(Compound words):

• Dél-Korea
• Észak-Korea

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay Korea, ultimately from Sino-Korean 고려 (高麗, Goryeo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔrea̯]

Proper noun

Korea

1. Korea

Compounds

• Korea Selatan
• Korea Utara

 

Further reading

• “Korea” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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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): /kɔˈrɛ.a/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Syllabification: Ko‧re‧a

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
• koreański
• Koreanka

 

Related terms

• Korea Północna
• Korea Południowa

 

See also

• Półwysep Koreański

Further reading

• Korea in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Korea in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Proper noun

Korea

1. Korea

Derived terms

• Korea ya Kaskazini
• Korea ya Kusini

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Swedish

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊ²reːa/

Proper noun

Korea n (genitive Koreas)

1. Korea

See also

• Nordkorea
• Sydkorea
• korean
• koreansk
• koreanska

Anagrams

• arkeo-