갓

See also: -갓-

갓 U+AC13, 갓 HANGUL SYLLABLE GAS Composition: ㄱ + ㅏ + ㅅ ← 값 [U+AC12] Hangul Syllables 갔 → [U+AC14]

가각갂갃간갅갆 갇갈갉갊갋갌갍 갎갏감갑값갓갔 강갖갗갘같갚갛
	→ 개

Jeju

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka̠t̚/

Noun

갓 (gat)

1. wife
2. woman

Korean

Etymology 1

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞᆺ (Yale: kos).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠t̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [갇]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	gas
McCune–Reischauer?	kat
Yale Romanization?	kas

Adverb

갓 • (gat)

1. just now; a moment ago

   Synonyms: 막 (mak), 방금(方今) (banggeum)

   갓 다녀갔어요. ― Gat danyeogasseoyo. ― [He] has just been here.

   갓난아기 ― gannanagi ― newborn (literally, “baby just now born”)

2. just, barely; used to emphasize the newness of the state

   갓 스무 살 ― gat seumu sal ― just [turned] twenty; barely twenty

Derived terms

• 갓난아기 (gannanagi, “newborn, infant”, literally “just-born baby”)
• 갓밝이 (gatbalgi, “dawn”, literally “just-brightening”)

 

Etymology 2

A mannequin wearing a gat.

First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446, as Middle Korean 갇〮 (Yale: kát).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠t̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [갇]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	gas
McCune–Reischauer?	kat
Yale Romanization?	kas

Noun

갓 • (gat)

1. gat (a traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen)

   Synonym: 입자(笠子) (ipja)

2. (mycology) pileus; cap of a mushroom

Derived terms

• 갓걸이 (gatgeori)
• 갓끈 (gatkkeun)
• 갓두루마기하다 (gatdurumagihada)
• 갓모자(帽子) (ganmoja)
• 갓방 (gatbang)
• 갓양태 (gadyangtae)
• 갓칠대 (gatchildae)
• 등갓 (deunggat)
• 삿갓 (satgat)

 

Descendants

• → English: gat, kat
• → Japanese: カッ (ka')
• → Russian: кат (kat)

Etymology 3

First attested in the Dong'ui bogam (東醫寶鑑 / 동의보감), 1613, as Early Modern Korean 갓 (Yale: kas), plausibly an ancient pre-Sino-Korean borrowing from Old Chinese 芥 (OC *kreːds, “mustard plant”). The Sino-Korean reading is 개 (芥, gae).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠t̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [갇]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	gas
McCune–Reischauer?	kat
Yale Romanization?	kas

Noun

갓 • (gat)

1. mustard plant (Brassica juncea), or the grain thereof

Derived terms

• 갓김치 (gatgimchi, “kimchi made of mustard leaves”)
• 갓나물 (gannamul, “mustard greens”)

 

Etymology 4

First attested in the Daemyeongnyul jikhae (대명률직해 / 大明律直解) [The Correct Translation of the Great Ming Code], 1395, in the hungaja form 枝 (literally “branch”), to be understood that this word is to be pronounced similarly to the Middle Korean word for "branch", 갖 (Yale: kac).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠t̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [갇]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	gas
McCune–Reischauer?	kat
Yale Romanization?	kas

Noun

갓 • (gat)

1. (archaic) plant reserve; area whose plants cannot be cut

Derived terms

• 나뭇갓 (namutgat)
• 말림갓 (mallimgat)
• 풀갓 (pulgat)

 

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠t̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [갇]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	gas
McCune–Reischauer?	kat
Yale Romanization?	kas

Counter

갓 • (gat)

1. bundle of ten dried fish or herbs

   굴비 여섯 갓 ― gulbi yeoseot gat ― six bunches of dried croaker fish

Etymology 6

See the main entry; preserves the sibilant final (lenited to /z/ in Middle Korean and now fully lost in Seoul).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠(ː)t̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [갇(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	gas
McCune–Reischauer?	kat
Yale Romanization?	kās

Noun

갓 • (gat)

1. (Gyeongsang, Chungcheong, Jeolla dialect) Dialectal form of 가 (ga, “edge, fringe”)

Etymology 7

A hanja created in Korea to represent a syllable without Sino-Korean equivalent.

Syllable

갓 (gat)

More information

1. 㖙: Used to represent the Korean syllable [ka̠t̚] in Classical Chinese texts.

   (eumhun reading: 음역자 갓 (eumyeokja gat))
   (MC reading: 㖙)