Etymology

halmoni

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Today it means: An elderly Korean woman, typically a grandmother. Full definition →

Korean 할머니
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The story

  1. Korean · borrowed from할머니“grandmother; old woman”
  2. English todayhalmoni

From Korean 할머니 (halmeoni, “grandmother; old woman”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.