말미암다

Korean

Etymology

First attested in the Beonyeok sohak (飜譯小學 / 번역소학), 1517, as Middle Korean 말ᄆᆡ삼다 (Yale: malmoy-samta), from 말ᄆᆡ (Yale: malmoy, “cause”) + 삼다 (Yale: samta, “to take as”). The /s/ was elided in the sixteenth century as the word merged into a single morpheme.

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ma̠ɭmia̠mt͈a̠]
  • Phonetic hangul: []
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?malmiamda
Revised Romanization (translit.)?malmiamda
McCune–Reischauer?malmiamta
Yale Romanization?mal.miamqta

Verb

말미암다 • (malmiamda) (infinitive 말미암아, sequential 말미암으니)

  1. (literary, formal) to be engendered; to be caused (generally accompanied by the instrumental particle (ro))
    Synonym: 기인(起因)하다 (giinhada)
    사건으로 말미암아 감금되었다.
    I sageon-euro malmiama geu-neun gamgeum-doeeotda.
    Due to this incident, he was imprisoned.
    화재 말미암은 폐허 없었다.
    Hwajae-ro malmiameun pyeheo-neun kkeuch-i eopseotda.
    The devastation wrought by the fire was endless.
  2. (rare) to pass by a place

Conjugation

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