Korea

Etymology
First attested as Core in the 1598 English translation of the 1596 Itinerario of, from the original , itself from according to van Linschoten's account. The spelling Corea was more common in Early Modern English, likely through.

Ultimately a sixteenth-century borrowing by Europeans from some variety of. Compare 🇨🇬 but especially, which matches the Dutch-Portuguese vowels exactly.

These are Chinese pronunciations of Sino-Korean, Korea's official name between 918 and 1394 and still used by Chinese people to refer to the country for centuries thereafter; this itself being a shortening of , an ancient Korean kingdom in the first millennium. , directly from Korean.

Some Korean authors claim an Arabic intermediary instead, but this is impossible because the actual medieval Arabic word for Korea was a variant of. [citation needed]

Proper noun

 * 1) . Now divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea.
 * 2)   (South Korea).
 * 3)   (North Korea).
 * 4)    of Japan (1910–1945).
 * 1)   (North Korea).
 * 2)    of Japan (1910–1945).

Translations

 * Abkhaz: Кореа
 * Afrikaans: Korea
 * Albanian: Kore, Koreja
 * Amharic: ኮርያ
 * Arabic: كُورْيَا, كُورِيَا
 * Hijazi Arabic: كوريا
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: কোৰিয়া
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܘܿܪܝܼܵܐ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: Koreya
 * Belarusian: Карэ́я
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: Korea
 * Buginese: ᨀᨚᨑᨗᨕ
 * Bulgarian: Коре́я
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: Коре́я
 * Catalan: Corea
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, ,
 * Dungan: Чощян
 * Eastern Min: 高麗, 朝鮮, 韓國
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Wu: 高麗, 朝鮮, 韓國
 * Corsican: Corea, Curea
 * Crimean Tatar: Koreya
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Korea
 * Dhivehi: ކޮރެއާ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Koreujo, Koreio
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: Korea
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: Coree
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კორეა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: કોરિયા
 * Hawaiian: Kōlea
 * Hebrew: קוֹרֵיאָה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: Corea
 * Irish: Cóiré
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 高麗, ,
 * Kalenjin: Korea
 * Kamba: Korea
 * Kannada: ಕೊರಿಯಾ
 * Kashubian: Kòreja
 * Kazakh: Корея
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: ko
 * Korean:,  ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: Корея
 * Lao: ເກົາຫຼີ, ເກົາຫລີ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: Koreja
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya: Korea
 * Luo: Korea
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: Korea
 * Malayalam: കൊറിയ
 * Maltese: Korea
 * Manchu: ᠰᠣᠯᡥᠣ, ᠴᠣᠣᡥᡳᠶᠠᠨ
 * Maori: Koria
 * Marathi: कोरिया
 * Meru: Korea
 * Middle Mongolian: 莎郎合思
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠣᠯᠤᠩᠭᠤᠰ
 * Navajo: Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí
 * Nepali: कोरिया
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Korea
 * Nynorsk: Korea
 * Occitan: Corèa
 * Odia: କୋରିଆ
 * Okinawan: 高麗, 韓国
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: Корєꙗ
 * Old Turkic: 𐰲𐰇𐰞𐰍𐰞
 * Ossetian: Корей
 * Ottoman Turkish: قوره
 * Pashto: کوريا
 * Persian:
 * Dari: کورِیَا
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਕੋਰੀਆ
 * Romanian: Coreea
 * Romansch: Corea
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: कोरिया
 * Sardinian: Corèa
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Коре́ја
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: Corea
 * Silesian: Koryjo
 * Sinhalese: කොරියාව
 * Slovak: Kórea
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: Koreja
 * Upper Sorbian: Koreja
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Korea
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Korea
 * Tajik: Қурия,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: Корея
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཀོ་རི་ཡ
 * Tigrinya: ኮርያ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Koreýa
 * Ukrainian: Коре́я
 * Urdu: کورِیا
 * Uyghur: چاۋشيەن, كورىيە
 * Uzbek: Koreya
 * Vietnamese: Cao Ly (高麗), Cao Lệ (高麗), (朝鮮),  (韓國)
 * Welsh: Corea
 * West Flemish: Korea
 * West Frisian: Koreä
 * Yiddish: קאָרעע
 * Zhuang: Cauzsenh, Hanzgoz

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) Korea

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) Korea ancient country
 * 2) Korea either of the two current Korean states
 * 3) Korea Korean peninsula

Usage notes

 * Plural may be used of North and South Korea collectively.

Proper noun

 * 1) Korea

Usage notes

 * The plural refers to both  and , and does occur in forms like "die beiden Korea".

Proper noun

 * 1)  ancient country
 * 2)  either of the two current Korean states

Etymology
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