상그랍다

Korean

Alternative forms
  • 상그럽다 (sanggeureopda), 쌍그랍다 (ssanggeurapda), 쌍그럽다 (ssanggeureopda)

Etymology

Compare northern Gyeongsang 사모랍다 (samorapda, “to be brutish, to be malicious”) (attested since the eighteenth century), also Middle Korean 사오〮납다〮 (Yale: sàwónàptá, “to be fierce, to be malicious”) > Seoul 사납다 (sanapda).

Adjective

상그랍다 • (sanggeurapda) (infinitive 상그랍아, sequential 상그랍으니) (Gyeongsang, Jeolla dialect)

  1. (of an object or person) to be difficult to deal with
  2. to be dangerous, to be unpropitious
    Synonym: 사납다 (sanapda)
    가는 팔자도 상그랍다. (Gyeongsang dialect, Changwon)
    Ga-neun palja-do sanggeurapda.
    Even his destiny is bad.
  3. to be disorienting
    Synonym: 사납다 (sanapda)
    와 그리 댕기노? 정신 쌍그럽구로. (Gyeongsang dialect, Changwon)
    Wa geuri daenggino? Jeongsin ssanggeureopguro.
    Why are you going back and forth like that? It's disorienting.
  4. (of a blade) to be sharp
    Synonym: 날카롭다 (nalkaropda)

Further reading
  • 경남 방언 사전 [gyeongnam bang'eon sajeon, Dictionary of southern Gyeongsang varieties], volume I, South Gyeongsang Provincial Government, 2017, page 438
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