こおり

Japanese

Etymology 1
For pronunciation and definitions of こおり – see the following entry.
【氷】3
[noun] ice (frozen water)
[noun] a cold and sharp object, as a shard of ice
[noun] Short for 氷水 (kōrimizu): ice water; water filled with ice
[noun] Short for 氷襲 (kōrigasane): layered clothing with the front shining white and plain white at the back
[proper noun] a female given name
[proper noun] a surname
Alternative spellings
凍り, 冰
(This term, こおり, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as こおり, see Category:Japanese kanji read as こおり.)

Etymology 2
Alternative spellings
郡
評 (historical)

From Old Japanese, an ancient borrowing from Proto-Koreanic *kopoLi (whence Korean 고을 (goeul)).

Pronunciation

Noun

こおり • (kōri) ←こほり (kofori)?

  1. (archaic) county, district
Usage notes
  • 評 is found in the oldest documents (see the Japanese Wikipedia).
Synonyms

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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