씨발

Korean

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the verb form 씹할 (ssiphal, “who will fuck”), clipped from the phrase 씹할 놈 (ssiphal nom, “bastard who will fuck”), itself ultimately from 지 어미 씹할 놈 (ji eomi ssiphal nom, “that bastard who will fuck his own mother”) or 니 어미 씹할 놈 (ni eomi ssiphal nom, “you bastard who will fuck your own mother”). See Cho Hang-beom 2019, pp. 399–402. Not attested until recently, but this may be due to prudishness.

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?ssibal
Revised Romanization (translit.)?ssibal
McCune–Reischauer?ssibal
Yale Romanization?ssipal

Interjection

씨발 • (ssibal)

  1. (vulgar) fuck! shit! [since at least 1960s]
    아, 씨발, 큰일났다.
    A, ssibal, keunillatda.
    Oh, fuck, I'm doomed.

(from the same vulgar phrase)

  • 니애미 (niaemi, literally “your mother”)
  • 니미럴 (nimireol, literally “with your mother”)
  • 지미랄 (jimiral, literally “with his mother”)

Descendants
  • →⇒ Chinese: 阿西吧 (āxiba)
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