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Middle Korean

noun

Meaning

  1. gauze, thin cloth

Etymology / origin

First attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as Middle Korean 놋 (Yale: nwos). Glossed hanja 羅 with eum reading 라. Probably relative to Modern Korean 노 with semantic shift from cord to cloth.

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