Korean/Words/벽

벽



 * Compounds
 * 바람벽 (baram-, "surrounding wall")
 * 성벽 (城壁, seong-, "rampart, defensive wall" around castles or cities )
 * 장벽 (障壁, jang-, "dam; barrier") cf. 베를린 장벽 "Berlin Wall"
 * 절벽 (絶壁, jeolbyeog, "cliff") cf. bergvegg #Norwegian "rock face" from berg ("cliff") + vegg ("wall")


 * Relatives
 * 울(타리) (ul-tari, "thin fence, barrier") cf. wall #English
 * 담(벼락) (dam-byeorag, "thick fence or wall") cf. dam #English
 * 댐 (daem, "dam") cf. "Afsluitdam," as it were
 * 둑 (dug, "dyke") cf. Afsluitdijk
 * 제방 (堤防, jebang, "dyke, levee, bank, embankment")
 * See also: (What's common in the following?)


 * 벼락 (byerag, "wall" & "thunderbolt") cf. Barak #English from Hebrew for "thunderbolt"
 * 벼랑 (byeorang, "cliff, precipice")
 * 벼룩 (bueorug, "flea")


 * Comparatives