Korean/Words/말밤*

말밤*

The horse chestnut fruits, aka. conkers

Roman: mal-bam*
Alias: *말밤 (assumed of sense)
Hanja: 末栗 (literally "coarse chestnut" hence actually "horse chestnut")
Noun
학명 Aesculus hippocastanum 의 한 고유/차입 번역어. [1]
horse chestnut [2]

Synonyms

마로니에 (maronie, "horse chestnut") -- the loanword from French. ^[3]
서양칠엽수 (seoyang-chil-yeobsu, "horse chestnut") ^[4]
가시칠엽수 (gasi-chil-yeobsu) ^[5]
일본칠엽수 (ilbon-chil-yeovsu) Aesculus turbinata ^[6]

Antonyms

단밤 (dan-bam, literally and actually "sweet chestnut") ^[7]
밤 (bam, "chestnut")

Relatives

말밤 (mal-bam, "water caltrop, water chestnut") -- the etymon, now dialect.
마름 (mareum, "water caltrop, water chestnut") -- the corrupted, now canonized.
물밤 (mul-bam, "water caltrop, water chestnut") -- the dialect, conforming to "water chestnut."

Comparatives: Selected from horse chestnut #Translations

Germanic	Latinic ^[8]	Slavic, etc.
Dutch: paardenkastanje English: horse chestnut German: Rosskastanie, Kastanie Norwegian: hestekastanje Swedish: hästkastanj	French: marronnier, marronnier d’Inde Italian: ippocastano, castagno d'India Portug.: castanha-da-índia Spanish: castaño de Indias	Bulgarian: конски кестен (konski kesten) Finnish: hevoskastanja Russian: ко́нский кашта́н (kónskij kaštán) Slovak: pagaštan konský Turkish: at kestanesi Welsh: marchgastanwydden

References

Lack, H. Walter. (2001). "The Discovery and Rediscovery of the Horse Chestnut." Arnoldia 61/4, pp. 15-19.

↑ Unauthorized, hence the asterisk.
↑ The prefix "horse" here means "coarse" rather than "large," as is the case with most other botanical compounds. Then, Latin hippo should also mean "coarse" as English "horse" does.
↑ This is implausibly imported, perhaps under the Japanese watering influence; instead, it would be plausible to reuse the native 말밤 which is not used canonically. Also noteworthy is the resemblance of marron to 마름 (mareum) stemming from 말밤.
↑ A mundane Sino-Korean harangue, contrasting to the Japanese as yin-yang, either-or.
↑ 열매는 밤과 닮았지만, 사포닌과 글루코사이드가 들어있는 등 약한 독성을 띄고 있어서 먹을 수 없다. Inedible, in short.
↑ Framing around Japan? By whom?
↑ The [ sweet chestnut ] tree is to be distinguished from the horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum, to which it is only distantly related. The horse chestnut bears similar looking seeds (conkers) in a similar seed case, which are not palatable to humans.
↑ Why is the qualifier "of India" used? To avoid using "horse"?

[1] Unauthorized, hence the asterisk.

[2] The prefix "horse" here means "coarse" rather than "large," as is the case with most other botanical compounds. Then, Latin hippo should also mean "coarse" as English "horse" does.

[3] This is implausibly imported, perhaps under the Japanese watering influence; instead, it would be plausible to reuse the native 말밤 which is not used canonically. Also noteworthy is the resemblance of marron to 마름 (mareum) stemming from 말밤.

[4] A mundane Sino-Korean harangue, contrasting to the Japanese as yin-yang, either-or.

[5] 열매는 밤과 닮았지만, 사포닌과 글루코사이드가 들어있는 등 약한 독성을 띄고 있어서 먹을 수 없다. Inedible, in short.

[6] Framing around Japan? By whom?

[7] The [ sweet chestnut ] tree is to be distinguished from the horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum, to which it is only distantly related. The horse chestnut bears similar looking seeds (conkers) in a similar seed case, which are not palatable to humans.

[8] Why is the qualifier "of India" used? To avoid using "horse"?

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