이사금

Korean

Etymology

Modern Korean reading of Hanja 泥師今. Beyond Middle Korean, read as *nisokum in the Old Korean/Sillan language and is a compound of 님 (nim, “lord”) + the genitive particle ㅅ (s) and the cranberry morpheme *금 (*geum). The latter is semantically related to 크다 (keuda, “to be big”), 곰 (gom, “bear”), 거룩 (georuk, “holy”), 검 (geom, “divine”), 하다 (hada, “to be great, to be many, to do”), 하나 (hana, “one”), 한 (han, “Korean”).

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?isageum
Revised Romanization (translit.)?isageum
McCune–Reischauer?isagŭm
Yale Romanization?isakum

Noun

이사금 • (isageum) (hanja 泥師今)

  1. (historical) a royal title of the ancient rulers of Silla, prior to the 마립간 era. Used as the rulers’ chief title meaning “monarch”, from the first to the fourth centuries
    Synonym: 군주 (gunju)

See also

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