Etymology

minjok

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Today it means: people, ethnic group Full definition →

Korean 민족(民族)
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The story

  1. Korean · borrowed from민족(民族)“ethnicity, nation, people, race”
  2. English todayminjok

Unadapted borrowing from Korean 민족(民族) (minjok, “ethnicity, nation, people, race”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.