나라

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) country, nation, kingdom

Etymology 1
from. Compare Yukjin dialect, which preserves the velar nature of the coda consonant.

Beyond Koreanic, the word is usually connected to, and hence 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, with ~ being a suffix. Also cf. -tah in >  and -lk in  >.

Noun

 * 1) country, nation
 * 2) government
 * 1) government
 * 1) government

Suffix

 * 1)  Chinese dynasty

Usage notes

 * Used only for historical Chinese polities with single-syllable names. Thus but simply .  is ungrammatical.

Etymology 2
From.