Korean/Words/마름

마름

Water caltrop, aka. water chestnut (Trapa natans cf. Trapa japonica) fruits

A 16th-century caltrop

Corm of (Chinese) water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis)

Roman: mareum
Older: < 마람 (maram) < 말암 (mal-am) < 말왐 (mal-wam) < 말ㅸㅏㅁ (mal-vam[1]) < 말밤 (mal-bam) [2]
Noun
마름과에 속한 한해살이풀. 연못이나 늪에서 자란다. 뿌리는 진흙 속에 박고 줄기는 물위에까지 가늘고 길게 뻗는다. 잎은 줄기 꼭대기에 뭉쳐나고 삼각형이며, 잎자루에 공기가 들어 있는 부낭(浮囊)이 있어서 물위에 뜬다. 여름에 흰 꽃이 피며 마름모꼴의 열매가 열리는데 이것을 까서 먹는다. 한국, 일본, 중국 등지에 분포한다. 학명은 Trapa japonica이다. [3] [4]
water caltrop, aka. water chestnut [5]

Compounds

마름쇠 (-soe, "caltrop, caltrap") ^[6]
마름모 (-mo, "lozenge")

Relatives

말밤 (末栗,^[7] mal-bam, lit. "coarse chestnut"^[8])
물밤 (mul-bam, lit. "water chestnut")

Comparatives

From water caltrop #Translations
Chinese: 菱角 (língjiao) Danish: hornnød Finnish: vesipähkinä Hungarian: sulyom Japanese: 菱 (ヒシ, hishi) Korean: 마름 (mareum) Russian: чёртов оре́х (čórtov oréx) Spanish: castaña de agua

Alias

The water caltrop is any of three extant species of the genus Trapa: Trapa natans, Trapa bicornis and the endangered Trapa rossica. It is also known as water chestnut, buffalo nut, bat nut, devil pod, ling nut, lin kok, ling jow, ling kio nut, mustache nut or singhada.

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The generic name Trapa is derived from the Latin word for "thistle", calcitrappa, as also is another common name for the water caltrop.

The Chinese name is língjiǎo (菱角), líng meaning "caltrop" and jiǎo meaning "horn". This is often rendered as ling nut by English-speakers.

-- Wikipedia: Water caltrop

See also

남가새 (namgasae, "Tribulus terrestris")

↑ The soft labial ㅸ, hence /v/. This descendant meant not only "water caltrop" but also "caltrop," according to 교학고어사전, p.538, equating to 마름쇠.
↑ The oldest 말밤 is still used widely as a dialect, together with 물밤 (mul-bam).
↑ https://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=마름
↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/마름
↑ Either enjoys few Western #Translations.
↑ The Hanja translations include 능철(菱鐵, lit. "(water) caltrop iron"), 철릉(鐵菱, lit. "iron caltrop"), etc.
↑ A folk Sino-Korean name (鄕名, 향명, hyang-meong)
↑ Hence lit. the homonym "horse chestnut," as it were!

[1] The soft labial ㅸ, hence /v/. This descendant meant not only "water caltrop" but also "caltrop," according to 교학고어사전, p.538, equating to 마름쇠.

[2] The oldest 말밤 is still used widely as a dialect, together with 물밤 (mul-bam).

[3] ttps://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=마름

[4] ttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/마름

[5] Either enjoys few Western #Translations.

[6] The Hanja translations include 능철(菱鐵, lit. "(water) caltrop iron"), 철릉(鐵菱, lit. "iron caltrop"), etc.

[7] A folk Sino-Korean name (鄕名, 향명, hyang-meong)

[8] Hence lit. the homonym "horse chestnut," as it were!

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