Seoul

See also: Séoul

English

Etymology

French Séoul, which is from Korean 서울 (Seoul, literally “capital city”).

Note that Seoul predates the Revised Romanization of Seoul. Note also that the original French segmentation was Sé-oul (cf. Dutch Seoel, i.e. Se-oel), but was reinterpreted as Seo-ul with Revised Romanization. A direct borrowing from Korean would probably result in "Soul", based on McCune–Reischauer romanization "Sŏul".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səʊl/
• enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /soʊl/

• audio (GA):

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• Rhymes: -əʊl
• Homophones: sole, soul, sowl

Proper noun

Seoul

1. The capital city of South Korea.

Derived terms

• Seoulite

See also

• Hanseong
• Keijō
• Heijō

Translations

capital of South Korea

• Afrikaans: Seoel
• Albanian: Seoul m, Seuli m
• Amharic: ሴኡል m (seʾul), ሶል m (sol)
• Arabic: سِيئُول f (sīʔūl), سِيُول f (siyūl), سُول f (sōl)
• Armenian: Սեուլ (Seul)
• Assamese: ছিউল (siul)
• Azerbaijani: Seul
• Basque: Seul (eu)
• Belarusian: Сеу́л m (Sjeúl), Сэу́л m (Seúl)
• Bengali: সিওল (śiōl), সউল (śoul)
• Bulgarian: Сеу́л m (Seúl)
• Burmese: ဆီယူ (hciyu)
• Catalan: Seül
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 首爾／首尔 (sau² ji⁵), 首尔 (sau² ji⁵), 漢城／汉城 (hon³ sing⁴), 汉城 (hon³ sing⁴)

  Hakka: 首爾／首尔, 首尔 (Sú-ngì), 漢城／汉城, 汉城 (Hon-sàng)

  Mandarin: 首爾／首尔 (zh) (Shǒu'ěr), 首尔 (zh) (Shǒu’ěr), 漢城／汉城 (zh) (Hànchéng), 汉城 (zh) (Hànchéng)

  Min Dong: 首爾／首尔 (Siū-ī), 首尔 (Siū-ī), 漢城／汉城 (Háng-siàng), 汉城 (Háng-siàng)

  Min Nan: 首爾／首尔, 首尔 (Siú-ní, Siú-jíⁿ), 漢城／汉城, 汉城 (Hàn-siâⁿ)

  Wu: 首爾／首尔 (⁵seu-er), 首尔 (seu er), 漢城／汉城 (⁵hoe-zen), 汉城 (hoe zen)

• Czech: Soul (cs) m
• Danish: Seoul (da) n
• Dutch: Seoel (nl) n, Seoul n
• Esperanto: Seulo (eo)
• Estonian: Sŏul (et), Soul (et)
• Finnish: Soul (fi)
• French: Séoul (fr) f
• Gagauz: Seul
• Galician: Seúl f
• Georgian: სეული (seuli)
• German: Seoul (de) n, (rare) Söul n, Soul (de) n
• Greek: Σεούλ (el) f (Seoúl)
• Hebrew: סיאול m, סֶאוּל m (si'úl)
• Hindi: सिऊल m (siūl), सियूल m (siyūl), सियोल m (siyol)
• Hungarian: Szöul (hu)
• Icelandic: Seúl n
• Indonesian: Seoul
• Irish: Súl m
• Italian: Seul (it) f, Seoul f
• Jamaican Creole: Siol
• Japanese: ソウル (ja) (Souru)
• Kabiyé: Sewuuli
• Kabyle: Seyul
• Kannada: ಸೌಲ್ (saul)
• Kashubian: Seul m
• Kazakh: Сеул (Seul)
• Khmer: សេអ៊ូល (km) (seeʼuul)
• Korean: 서울 (Seoul)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سێئول (sêûl), سیئۆل (siol)

• Kyrgyz: Сеул (Seul)
• Lao: ເຊອູນ (sē ʼūn)
• Latin: (New Latin) Seulum n
• Latvian: Seula f
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• Limburgish: Seoel n
• Lingala: Sɔul, Seoul
• Lithuanian: Seulas m
• Malay: Seoul
• Malayalam: സോൾ (sōḷ)
• Maltese: Seul m
• Marathi: सोल n (sol)
• Mongolian: Сөүл (Söül)
• Nahuatl: Seul
• Navajo: Sééʼool
• Nepali: सिउल (siul), सोल (sol)
• Northern Luri: سئوٙل (seyūl)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Seoul n

• Occitan: Seol m
• Pashto: سېول (seūl)
• Persian: سئول (se'ul)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Soel
• Polish: Seul (pl) m
• Portuguese: Seul f
• Punjabi: ਸਿਓਲ m (siola)
• Quechua: Siyul, Seul
• Romanian: Seul (ro) n
• Russian: Сеу́л (ru) m (Seúl)
• Rusyn: Соул m (Soul)
• Samogitian: Seuls m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сеул m

  Roman: Seul m

• Sindhi: سيول (siyūl)
• Sinhalese: සෝල් (sōl)
• Slovak: Soul (sk) m
• Slovene: Seul m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Soul m

  Upper Sorbian: Seoul m

• Spanish: Seúl (es) m
• Swedish: Söul (sv) n, Seoul (sv) n
• Tagalog: Seúl, Seoul, Seyúl, Seyol
• Tajik: Сеул (Seul)
• Tamil: சியோல் (ciyōl)
• Thai: โซล (th) (sool), (obsolete) เซอูล
• Tibetan: སེ་ཨུལ། (se ul), སེ་ཨུལ་ (se ul)
• Tok Pisin: Sol
• Turkish: Seul
• Turkmen: Seul
• Ukrainian: Сеу́л m (Seúl)
• Urdu: سیئول m (siyūl), سیول m (seūl), سؤل m (sawūl)
• Uyghur: سېئول (së'ol)
• Uzbek: Seul
• Vietnamese: Xơ-un, Xê-un, Hán Thành (漢城)
• West Frisian: Seoel, Seoul
• Yiddish: סעאָל n (seol)
• Zhuang: Soujwj

the name of Seoul during the Joseon dynasty — see Hanseong

the name of Seoul during the Japanese occupation period in the early 20th century — see Keijō

Hanyang — see Hanyang

Further reading

• Seoul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Eolus, Soule, loues, louse, oules, ousel, soule

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Danish

Proper noun

Seoul

1. Seoul (the capital of South Korea)

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Dutch

Proper noun

Seoul n

1. Alternative spelling of Seoel

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German

Alternative forms

• Söul, Soul (both rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 서울 (Seoul, literally “capital city”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈuːl/, /sɔʊ̯l/, /soːl/, /zeˈuːl/, /zɔʊ̯l/, /zoːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl, -ɔʊ̯l, -oːl
• Hyphenation: Se‧oul

Proper noun

Seoul n (genitive Seoul)

1. Seoul (the capital city of South Korea)

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Italian

Proper noun

Seoul f

1. Alternative spelling of Seul

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Swedish

Proper noun

Seoul n (genitive Seouls)

1. Alternative spelling of Söul