겨레

Korean

Alternative forms
  • 결에 (gyeore), 결레 (gyeolle), 결게 (gyeolge) (early modern)

Etymology

First attested in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), 1481, as Middle Korean 결에 (Yale: kyelGey), equivalent to 겯— (gyeot-, “to plait”) + —에 (-e).

The sense of "nation-state" was a late nineteenth-century innovation inspired by the nationalistic desire of the Western term "nation".

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gyeore
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gyeole
McCune–Reischauer?kyŏre
Yale Romanization?kyeley

Noun

겨레 • (gyeore)

  1. (archaic) kinsmen; relatives
  2. (literary) race; nation; people (generally referring to Koreans) [from 20th c.]
    Synonym: 민족(民族) (minjok, “nation”)
    겨레 사랑 ― gyeore sarang ― fraternity among compatriots
    말은 겨레의 얼이다.
    Mar-eun gyeore-ui eor-ida.
    Language is the soul of a nation.
    우리 겨레의 역사
    uri gyeore-ui yeoksa
    history of our nation
    남북통일은 온 겨레의 염원이다.
    Nambuktong'ir-eun on gyeore-ui yeomwon-ida.
    Unification of the North and South is the wish of the whole Korean race.

Derived terms
  • 겨레말 (gyeoremal)
  • 겨레붙이 (gyeorebuchi)
  • 한겨레 (han'gyeore)
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