고장

Etymology
From, cognate to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  flower; flowering plant

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) breakdown

Etymology 2
This term is not attested in pre-twentieth century documents.

The Pyongan dialect form implies original *고댱, given the regular eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sound shift of  in Pyongan and  elsewhere. Hence perhaps a, whose original Sino-Korean reading was indeed 고댱.

Noun

 * 1) a populated district; a town
 * 2) a center of production for a particular commodity