different between korea vs yangban

Atong (India)

Etymology

Possibly from a brand of the pan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /korea/

Noun

korea (Bengali script ?????)

1. big metal pan

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Esperanto

Adjective

korea (accusative singular korean, plural koreaj, accusative plural koreajn)

1. Korean (of or pertaining to Korean people, the Korean language, or the Korean Peninsula)
2. (la korea) Clipping of la korea lingvo (“the Korean language”).

Hypernyms

• azia (“Asian”)

Hyponyms

• nordkorea (“North Korean”)
• sudkorea (“South Korean”)

Related terms

• koree (“in Korean”)
• koreano (“a Korean person”)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kore?/, [?ko?re??]
• Rhymes: -ore?
• Syllabification: ko?re?a

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *koreda.

Adjective

korea (comparative koreampi, superlative korein)

1. beautiful, decorated

Declension

Synonyms

• kruusattu

Derived terms

• koreasti
• koreilla
• koreus

Etymology 2

< Korea

Noun

korea

1. Korean (language)

Declension

Synonyms

• korean kieli

Related terms

• Korea
• korealainen
• koreankielinen

Etymology 3

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ?????? (khoreía).

Noun

korea

1. (medicine) chorea

Declension

Synonyms

• Huntingtonin tauti
• tanssitauti

English

Etymology

From Korean ??(??) (yangban).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ja?ban/

Noun

yangban (plural yangbans or yangban)

1. (historical) A member of the ruling class of male Confucian intellectuals in Korea at and before the time of the Korean Empire.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 900:

     One yangban, Yi S?ng-hun, provided a new answer to this crisis of authority: while in Beijing serving as a diplomat, he was baptized a Catholic Christian and went home to propagate his faith.