Korea

• Corea (now rare)

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) or Compare Hokkien 高麗／高丽 (Ko-lê)—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, which took its name from a tribe called gauri (the centre), whose modern form is 가운데 (gaunde). 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, likely through Core +‎ -ia.

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

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Korea (countable and uncountable, plural Koreas)

1. A nation in East Asia. Since World War II, Korea has been divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea.
   • 1780, “The Hiſtory of Jenghîz Khan's Succeſſors in Tartary and China”, in The Modern Part of an Univerſal History from the Earlieſt Accounts to the Preſent Time‎, volume IV, page 297:

     After the death of the empreſs Papûſha he had been baniſhed into Korea, from whence he was removed to Quey-lin Fû, the capital of Quang-ſi.

   • 1954, Barkley, Alben W., “What Happened at Chicago”, in That Reminds Me‎, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 246:

     Then I told the delegates of the trip which I had taken with my wife, Jane, into Korea on the previous Thanksgiving, and of how I had celebrated my seventy-fourth birthday on the snowy mountains of Korea, eating from a mess kit with the men in uniform.

2. (informal) The Republic of Korea (South Korea).
3. (informal) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
4. (informal) The Korean Peninsula.

• Names of Korea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• keora, oaker

• IPA^(key): [ˈkorɛa]

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Korea f (related adjective korejský)

1. Korea (two countries in East Asia, North Korea and South Korea)

• Korea in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Korea in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• Korea in Internetová jazyková příručka

Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoːˈreː.aː/

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• Hyphenation: Ko‧rea

Korea n

1. Korea

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

Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /kʰoˈɹeː.a/

Korea n

1. Korea

• koreanskur
• Norðurkorea
• Suðurkorea

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoreɑ/, [ˈko̞re̞ɑ]
• Rhymes: -oreɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ko‧re‧a

Korea

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

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

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

• korea (senses beautiful or chorea)

• IPA^(key): /koˈʁeːaː/

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Korea n (genitive Koreas, plural Korea)

1. Korea

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

• “Korea” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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

Korea

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

• koreai

(Compound words):

• Dél-Korea
• Észak-Korea

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔrea̯]

Korea

1. Korea

• “Korea” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Korea

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

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

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Korea

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

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

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈrɛ.a/

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

Korea f

1. (historical) Korea (“an ancient country in East Asia”)
2. (informal) Korea (two countries in East Asia, North Korea and South Korea)

• Półwysep Koreański

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

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Korea

1. Korea

• Korea ya Kaskazini
• Korea ya Kusini

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

• IPA^(key): /kʊ²reːa/

Korea n (genitive Koreas)

1. Korea

• Nordkorea
• Sydkorea
• korean
• koreansk
• koreanska

• arkeo-

From English Korea and/or Spanish Corea, with the root ultimately from Sino-Korean 고려 (高麗, ^goryeo).

• Hyphenation: Ko‧re‧a
• IPA^(key): /koˈɾia/, [koˈɾi.jɐ]
• IPA^(key): /koˈɾeja/, [koˈɾɛ.jɐ]

Korea (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇᜒᜌ)

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

• “Korea”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018