English Explanatory Dictionary

Korean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.
  2. Of or relating to the Korean language.
name
  1. Official language of the people residing on the Korean Peninsula, and language of approximately 60 million people, in Asia, North America, and elsewhere.
noun
  1. A person of an ethnic group indigenous to the Korean Peninsula.

Pronunciation

/kəˈɹi.ən/ /kəˈɹiːən/ en-us-Korean.ogg

Word forms

Korean Corean Koreans

Etymology

From Korea + -an.

Related words

Proto-Koreanic Old Korean Middle Korean Early Modern Korean Modern Korean Wiktionary’s coverage of Korean terms

Derived words

Korean age 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

Albanian: korean Arabic: كُورِيّ Armenian: կորեական Asturian: coreanu Azerbaijani: koreya Azerbaijani: koreyalı Basque: korear Belarusian: карэ́йскі Bengali: কোরীয় Bulgarian: коре́йски Burmese: ကိုရီးယား Catalan: coreà Chinese Mandarin: 朝鮮的 /朝鲜的 Chinese Mandarin: 韓國的 /韩国的 Czech: korejský Danish: koreansk Danish: koreanskt Dhivehi: ކޮރެޔާ ބަސް Dutch: Koreaans Dutch: Koreaanse Estonian: korea Finnish: korealainen French: coréen Galician: coreano Georgian: კორეული German: koreanisch Greek: κορεατικός Hawaiian: Kōlea Hindi: कोरियाई Hungarian: koreai Icelandic: kóreskur Indonesian: Korea Irish: Cóiréach Italian: coreano Japanese: 韓国の Japanese: 朝鮮の Kazakh: кәріс Kazakh: корей Khmer: កូរ៉េ Korean: 조선의 Korean: 한국의 Korean: 한 Northern Kurdish: koreyî Kyrgyz: корей Lao: ເກົາຫລີ Latvian: korejiešu Latvian: korejisks Lithuanian: korėjiečių Lithuanian: korėjietiškas Macedonian: корејски
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