新羅

Etymology 1
First attested in the  as  as in 斯盧國 (“Saro state”), one of the 12 statelets belonging to the. Other old variations include and.

In documents, those country names were equated with the name of the capital,, a compound of  +. Other variants include, and , whence.

, the first syllable of 徐羅 is considered to mean “gold” because of, the sinicized name of the capital city (cf. , “iron, metal”). The second syllable is according to one theory a connective particle,  but another theory posits that it means “land”.

Proper noun

 * 1) Silla one of the ancient

Etymology 1
→ * →

Shift from.

Proper noun

 * 1) Silla

Etymology 2
From the -derived reading of the kanji characters.

Proper noun

 * 1) Silla

Etymology
Shiratori (1896) derived this word from, reconstructed from as in  or , an older name of Silla; and 🇨🇬 considered as borrowed from 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬 and older form  (kwurwu, OC *koː ɡ·roː/ɡ·ro, MC kəu lɨo|ləu), equated with Old Korean.

Aisin-Gioro (2009) proposed that there are also similar exonyms for Korea, made from the same configuration, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and borrowed as 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, as being related to *Syera-kuy, and 🇨🇬 as a descendant of.

Proper noun

 * 1) Silla