말

• 몰 (mol) (mostly obsolete)

First attested in the Yongbi eocheonga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 말 (mal).

• IPA^(key)[ma̠ːɭ]
• Phonetic Hangul[말:]

Of native Korean origin.

말 • (mal)

1. word, speech, language

   내 말을 주의하여 들어봐.

   Nae mareul juuihayeo deureobwa.

   Listen to me carefully.

• 낱말 (nanmal, “a single word”)
• 한국말 (han-gungmal, “the Korean language”)
• 말씀 (malsseum, “(honorific) word”)
• 말하다 (malhada, “to say, speak, talk”)

• 이르다 (ireuda, “to say”)

First attested in the Yongbi eocheonga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄆᆞᆯ (mal) and as 𨥬.

Probably related to Japanese 馬 (uma).

The ma sound denoting "horse" is common to a number of languages of central Asia, where horses were first domesticated, suggesting a possible cognate root. Compare Manchu ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠨ (morin, “horse”), Mongolian морь (morʹ, “horse”), Mandarin 馬 (mǎ, “horse”), and Proto-Indo-European *márkos (“horse”) and descendants such as Irish marc (“horse”, archaic) or English mare (“female horse”). More at *márkos.

• IPA^(key)[ma̠ɭ]
• Phonetic Hangul[말]

말 • (mal) (counter 마리)

1. horse
2. sawhorse
3. checker, checkerman

• 망아지 (mang-aji, “pony”)
• 암말 (ammal, “female horse, mare”)
• 수말 (sumal, “male horse”)

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 말 (mal).

Native Korean related to Sino-Korean 斗. Auxiliary units of quantification of 되 (升, doe).

말 • (mal)

1. measure (containing about 18 liters or 10 doe (되))
2. a unit of measure (about 18 liters)
3. (prefix): great, e.g., 말벌, 말개미, 말잠자리

• 되 (doe): 1/10 mal
• 홉 (hop): 1/100 mal
• 작 (jak): 1/1000 mal

Short form of 말뚝

말 • (mal)

1. stake
   • 1461: 橛은 말히라 (楞嚴經諺解 (활자본) 8:85)

First recorded in the Hunmong jahoe, 1527, as 𨥬.

말 • (mal)

1. an alga or other waterborne cryptogam
2. seaweed
   1. specifically Potamogeton oxyphyllus.

• 조 (藻, jo)
• 해조 (海藻, haejo)

Sino-Korean word from 末 (“end”)

말 • (mal) (hanja 末)

1. end