돈벌레

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Korean

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Etymology

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(don, money) +‎ 벌레 (beolle, bug)

Folk belief in Korea holds that a family that lives in a house with house centipedes in it will become rich.

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?donbeolle
Revised Romanization (translit.)?donbeolle
McCune–Reischauer?tonpŏlle
Yale Romanization?tonqpelley

Noun

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돈벌레 (donbeolle)

  1. (zoology) House centipede (centipedes of the family Scutigeridae)

Synonyms

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