돈벌레

Korean

Etymology

(don, money) + 벌레 (beolle, bug)

Folk belief in Korea holds that a family that lives in a house with house centipedes in it will become rich.

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?donbeolle
Revised Romanization (translit.)?donbeolle
McCune–Reischauer?tonpŏlle
Yale Romanization?tonqpelley

Noun

돈벌레 • (donbeolle)

  1. (zoology) House centipede (centipedes of the family Scutigeridae)

Synonyms

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