First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446, as Middle Korean 옷〮 (Yale: wós).
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Revised Romanization? | ot |
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Revised Romanization (translit.)? | os |
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McCune–Reischauer? | ot |
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Yale Romanization? | os |
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옷 • (ot)
- clothing; clothes
- 옷-을 벗다 ― os-eul beotda ― to take off clothes
- 옷-을 입다 ― os-eul ipda ― to wear clothes
- 옷-이 날개-다. ― Os-i nalgae-da. ― The better dressed, the brighter looking. (literally, “clothing is a wing.”)
할머니-께서-는 집-을 나설 때-마다 나-의 옷-을 여미어 주시-고는 하였다.- Halmeoni-kkeseo-neun jib-eul naseol ttae-mada na-ui os-eul yeomieo jusi-goneun hayeotda.
- My grandmother would straighten my clothes for me every time [I] left the house.
1964, 김승옥/金承鈺 [Kim Seung-ok], 무진기행/霧津記行 [A Trip to Mujin]:나-는 우울한 유령-들-처럼 나-를 내려다보고 있는 벽-에 걸린 하얀 옷-들-을 흘겨보고 있었다.- Na-neun uul-han yuryeong-deul-cheoreom na-reul naeryeodabogo inneun byeog-e geollin hayan ot-deur-eul heulgyeobogo isseotda.
- My eyes were sharply fixed on the clothes hung on the wall, which were staring down at me as if they were a bunch of depressed ghosts.