물푸레나무

Etymology
The oldest indirect attestation is as the calqued Chinese form, first found in the Hyangyak Gugeupbang (향약구급방 / 鄕藥救急方) written in the mid-thirteenth century and common in Korean Classical Chinese ever since.

from +  +. Literally "that which makes water blue". The bark of the ash tree produces a blue dye.

The generally encountered modern form is a compound that includes. This form is first attested in 1617.



Noun

 * 1) ash tree
 * , the tree, in particular