Korean

See also: korean

English

Alternative forms

• Corean (obsolete)

Etymology

From Korea +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹi.ən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹiːən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːən

Adjective

Korean (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.
   • 2013 July 18, Claire Lee, “Popular TV drama revisited onstage”, in The Korea Herald‎^[1]:

     The show’s stage design features bojagi, traditional Korean patchwork. The audience members are also presented with Korean traditional dance, including buchaechum, or “fan dance,” performed by a group of female dancers using fans painted in different colors.

2. Of or relating to the Korean language.

Derived terms

• Korean barbecue
• Korean BBQ
• Korean chestnut
• Korean crevice salamander
• Korean dogwood
• Korean pear
• Korean pine
• Korean sauce
• Korean Sign Language
• Korean wave
• Sino-Korean

Translations

relating to the Korean Peninsula

• Albanian: korean (sq)
• Arabic: كُورِيّ (kōriyy)
• Armenian: կորեական (koreakan)
• Asturian: coreanu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: koreya, koreyalı (az)
• Basque: korear
• Belarusian: карэ́йскі (karéjski)
• Bengali: কোরীয় (kōriẏo)
• Bulgarian: коре́йски (koréjski)
• Burmese: ကိုရီးယား (my) (kuiri:ya:)
• Catalan: coreà (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朝鮮的 / 朝鲜的 (Cháoxiǎn de), 韓國的 / 韩国的 (Hánguó de)

• Czech: korejský (cs)
• Danish: koreansk, koreanskt n
• Dhivehi: ކޮރެޔާ ބަސް (dv) (koreyā bas)
• Dutch: Koreaans (nl), Koreaanse (nl)
• Estonian: korea (et)
• Finnish: korealainen (fi)
• French: coréen (fr)
• Galician: coreano (gl)
• Georgian: კორეული (ḳoreuli)
• German: koreanisch (de)
• Greek: κορεατικός (el) (koreatikós)
• Hawaiian: Kōlea
• Hindi: कोरियाई (hi) (koriyāī)
• Hungarian: koreai (hu)
• Icelandic: kóreskur
• Indonesian: Korea (id)
• Irish: Cóiréach
• Italian: coreano (it)
• Japanese: (South) 韓国の (かんこくの, Kankoku no), (North or related to both of Koreas in academic context) 朝鮮の (ちょうせんの, Chōsen no)
• Kazakh: кәріс (kärıs), корей (korei)
• Khmer: កូរ៉េ (km) (kouree)
• Korean: 조선의 (joseon-ui), (North Korea), 한국의 (han'gug-ui), (South Korea) 한 (ko) (han)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: koreyî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: корей (korey)
• Lao: ເກົາຫລີ (kao lī)
• Latvian: korejiešu, korejisks
• Lithuanian: korėjiečių (lt), korėjietiškas
• Macedonian: корејски (korejski)
• Malay: Korea
• Manchu: ᠰᠣᠯᡥᠣ (solho), ᠰᠣᠯᡥᠣ ᡳ (solho-i), ᠴᠣᠣᡥᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᡳ (coohiyan-i)
• Marathi: कोरियन (koriyan)
• Mon: ကိုဝ်ရဳယျာ
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: солонгос (solongos), солонгосын (solongosyn)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koreansk

  Nynorsk: koreansk

• Occitan: corean (oc)
• Pashto: کوریایي
• Persian: کره‌ای (kore-yi)
• Polish: koreański (pl)
• Portuguese: coreano (pt)
• Romanian: coreean (ro)
• Russian: коре́йский (ru) (koréjskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀ре̄јскӣ

  Roman: kòrējskī (sh)

• Slovak: kórejský (sk)
• Slovene: korejski (sl)
• Spanish: coreano (es)
• Swahili: ya Korea
• Swedish: koreansk (sv)
• Tagalog: Korean, Koreano (tl)
• Tajik: кореягӣ (tg) (koreyagi), куриёӣ (kuriyoi)
• Tatar: корей (qorey)
• Thai: เกาหลี (th) (gao-lǐi)
• Turkish: Kore (tr), Koreli (tr)
• Turkmen: koreý
• Ukrainian: коре́йський (uk) (koréjsʹkyj)
• Urdu: کوریائی (koriyā'ī)
• Uyghur: كورېيە (korëye)
• Uzbek: koreys (uz)
• Vietnamese: Triều Tiên (vi), Hàn Quốc (vi)
• Xibe: ᠴᠣᡠᠰᡞᠶᠠᠨ ᡞ (coosiyan -i)
• Yiddish: קאָרעיש (koreysh)
• Zhuang: Cauzsenh, Hanzgoz

Proper noun

Korean

2. (uncountable) Official language of the people residing on the Korean Peninsula, and language of approximately 60 million people, in Asia, North America, and elsewhere.

Translations

language

• Albanian: korean (sq)
• Arabic: كُورِيّ m (kōriyy), كُورِيَّة (ar) f (kōriyya)
• Armenian: կորեերեն (hy) (koreeren)
• Asturian: coreanu (ast)
• Basque: koreera (eu)
• Belarusian: карэ́йская мо́ва f (karéjskaja móva), карэ́йская (karéjskaja) (мо́ва)
• Bulgarian: коре́йски m (koréjski) (ези́к)
• Catalan: coreà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 韓文 / 韩文 (hon⁴ man^4-2)

  Hokkien: 韓文 / 韩文 (hân-bûn), 韓語 / 韩语 (hân-gú, hân-gí)

  Mandarin: 韓語 / 韩语 (zh) (hányǔ), 韓文 / 韩文 (zh) (hánwén), 朝鮮語 / 朝鲜语 (zh) (cháoxiǎnyǔ)

• Czech: korejština (cs) f
• Dutch: Koreaans (nl) n
• Esperanto: Koreana
• Estonian: korea keel (et)
• Finnish: korea (fi), korean kieli
• French: coréen (fr) m
• Galician: coreano (gl) m
• Georgian: კორეული (ḳoreuli)
• German: Koreanisch (de) n
• Greek: κορεατικά (el) n pl (koreatiká)
• Greenlandic: koreamiusut
• Guaraní: koreañe'ẽ
• Hebrew: קוריאנית f
• Hindi: कोरियाई (hi) (koriyāī)
• Hungarian: koreai (hu)
• Icelandic: kóreska (is)
• Ido: Koreana (io)
• Indonesian: bahasa Korea
• Irish: Cóiréis f
• Italian: coreano (it)
• Japanese: 韓国語 (ja) (かんこくご, kankokugo) (South), 朝鮮語 (ja) (ちょうせんご, chōsengo) (North or academic), ハングル (ja) (hanguru) (colloquial, proscribed), コリアン (ja) (korian) (colloquial)
• Kazakh: кәріс тілі (kärıs tılı), кәрісше (kärısşe), корейше (koreişe)
• Khmer: ភាសាកូរ៉េ (phiəsaa kouree)
• Korean: 조선어(朝鮮語) (ko) (joseoneo) (North Korea), 한국어(韓國語) (ko) (han'gugeo), 한국말 (ko) (han'gungmal), 국어(國語) (ko) (gugeo), 우리말 (ko) (urimal), 한글 (ko) (han'geul) (colloquial, proscribed, South Korea)
• Kyrgyz: корейче (koreyce)
• Lao: ພາສາເກົາຫຼີ (phā sākao lī)
• Latvian: korejiešu valoda
• Lithuanian: korėjiečių kalba (lt)
• Macedonian: коре́јски m (koréjski) (ја́зик)
• Malay: bahasa Korea
• Manchu: ᠰᠣᠯᡥᠣ
  ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ (solho gisun)
• Marathi: कोरियन f (koriyan)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: солонгос хэл (solongos xel)

• Navajo: Kolíya dineʼé bizaad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koreansk m

  Nynorsk: koreansk m

• Occitan: corean (oc) m
• Persian: کره‌ای (kore-'i)
• Polish: koreański (pl)
• Portuguese: coreano (pt) m
• Romanian: coreeană (ro) f
• Russian: коре́йский язы́к m (koréjskij jazýk), коре́йский (ru) m (koréjskij) (язы́к)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: корејски m

  Roman: korejski (sh) m

• Sinhalese: කොරියානු (si) (koriyānu), කොරියානු භාෂාව (koriyānu bhāṣāwa)
• Slovak: kórejčina (sk) f
• Slovene: korejščina (sl) f
• Spanish: coreano (es) m
• Swahili: Kikorea
• Swedish: koreanska (sv) c
• Tagalog: Koreano (tl), Korean
• Thai: ภาษาเกาหลี (paa-sǎa gao-lǐi)
• Tigrinya: ኮሪያኛ (koriyaña)
• Turkish: Korece (tr)
• Ukrainian: коре́йська мо́ва f (koréjsʹka móva), коре́йська (uk) f (koréjsʹka) (мо́ва)
• Uyghur: كورىيەچە (koriyeche)
• Uzbek: koreys (uz), koreyscha (uz)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Hàn Quốc (vi), tiếng Triều Tiên (vi)
• Yiddish: קאָרעאיש (koreish)

Noun

Korean (plural Koreans)

1. (countable) A native or resident in North Korea or South Korea, or a person of Korean descent.
   • 1995, K. Connie Kang, Home Was the Land of Morning Calm‎^[2], Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:

     The legacy of the Korean independence movement remains today: nearly two million ethnic Koreans live in China, half of them in the Yenpien Korean Autonomous District in southeast Manchuria.

Translations

person

• Albanian: korean (sq)
• Arabic: كُورِيّ m (kōriyy), كُورِيَّة (ar) f (kōriyya)
• Armenian: կորեացի (koreacʻi)
• Asturian: coreanu (ast) m, coreana (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: koreya, koreyalı (az)
• Basque: korear
• Belarusian: карэ́ец m (karéjec), карэя́нка f (karejánka)
• Bulgarian: коре́ец m (koréec), коре́йка f (koréjka)
• Catalan: coreà (ca) m, coreana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 韓國人 / 韩国人 (hon⁴ gwok³ jan⁴)

  Hokkien: 韓國人 / 韩国人 (hân-kok-lâng)

  Mandarin: 韓國人 / 韩国人 (zh) (hánguórén), 朝鮮人 / 朝鲜人 (zh) (cháoxiānrén)

• Czech: Korejec (cs) m, Korejka (cs) f
• Danish: Koreaner c
• Dutch: Koreaan (nl) m, Koreaanse (nl) f
• Estonian: korealane
• Finnish: korealainen (fi)
• French: Coréen (fr) m, Coréenne (fr) f
• Galician: coreano (gl) m, coreana f
• Georgian: კორეელი (ḳoreeli)
• German: Koreaner (de) m, Koreanerin (de) f
• Greek: Κορεάτης (el) m (Koreátis), Κορεάτισσα (el) f (Koreátissa)
• Hawaiian: Kōlea
• Hindi: कोरियाई (hi) (koriyāī)
• Hungarian: koreai (hu)
• Icelandic: Kóreumaður m
• Ido: Koreano (io)
• Indonesian: orang Korea
• Irish: Cóiréach m
• Italian: coreano (it) m, coreana (it) f
• Japanese: 朝鮮人 (ja) (ちょうせんじん, chōsenjin), 韓国人 (ja) (かんこくじん, kankokujin) (South), コリアン (ja) (korian)
• Kazakh: кәріс (kärıs), корей (korei)
• Korean: 조선인(朝鮮人) (ko) (joseonin), 조선 사람 (joseon saram) (North Korea), 한국인(韓國人) (ko) (han'gugin), 한국 사람 (han'guk saram) (South Korea), 우리나라 사람 (urinara saram)
• Kyrgyz: корей (korey)
• Latvian: korejietis m, korejiete f
• Lithuanian: korėjietis (lt) m, korėjietė (lt) f
• Macedonian: Кореец m (Koreec), Корејка f (Korejka)
• Malay: orang Korea
• Maltese: Korejan m
• Manchu: ᠰᠣᠯᡥᠣ (solho)
• Marathi: कोरियन (koriyan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koreaner m

  Nynorsk: koreanar m

• Persian: کره‌ای (kore-'i)
• Polish: Koreańczyk (pl) m pers, Koreanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: coreano (pt) m, coreana f
• Romanian: coreean (ro) m, coreeană (ro) f, coreeancă f
• Russian: коре́ец (ru) m (koréjec), корея́нка (ru) f (korejánka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Коре́јац m, Корејка f, Корејанац m, Корејанка f (less common), Кореанац m, Кореанка f (less common)

  Roman: Koréjac (sh) m, Korejka f, Korejanac m, Korejanka f (less common), Koreanac m, Koreanka f (less common)

• Slovak: Kórejčan m, Kórejčanka f
• Slovene: Korejec (sl) m, Korejka f
• Spanish: coreano (es) m, coreana (es) f
• Swahili: Mkorea (sw)
• Swedish: korean (sv), koreanska (sv) f
• Tagalog: Koreano (tl), Koreana, Korean
• Tajik: кореягӣ (tg) (koreyagi), куриёӣ (kuriyoi)
• Turkish: Koreli (tr)
• Turkmen: koreý
• Ukrainian: коре́єць (uk) m (koréjecʹ), корея́нка f (korejánka)
• Uyghur: كورېيە (korëye)
• Uzbek: koreys (uz)
• Vietnamese: người Triều Tiên (North Koreans and as an ethnic group), người Hàn Quốc (South Koreans only), người Hàn (South Koreans only)
• Yiddish: קאָרעער m (koreer)

Related terms

• Proto-Koreanic
• Old Korean
• Middle Korean
• Early Modern Korean
• Modern Korean

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Korean terms
• Appendix:Korean Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Korean

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code ko, ISO 639-3 code kor (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Korean, kor ⁠

Finnish

Proper noun

Korean

1. genitive singular of Korea

Anagrams

• erakon, kerona, nokare