밭

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 밭 (Yale: pàth).

Probably cognate to Old Japanese 畑 (patake, “dry field”). Most analyses posit an early Korean borrowing into Japanese.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pa̠t̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [받]

• South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 밭의 / 밭에 / 밭까지

  Syllables in red take high pitch. This word takes low pitch only before consonant-initial multisyllabic suffixes.

밭 • (bat)

1. dry field, dry land for crops

   Coordinate terms: 논 (non, “paddy, watered field for rice”), 답(畓) (dap, “paddy, watered field for rice”)

   옥수수 밭에 크롭 써클이 만들어졌다. ― Oksusu bate keurop sseokeuri mandeureojeotda. ― A crop circle was made in a corn field.

2. (especially Yukjin) any land (both cultivated and wild) with many plants: fields, paddies, forests, meadows, etc.
   • 1925, Kim Dong-hwan, 김동환(金東煥), 國(국)境(경)의 밤 (Gukgyeong-ui bam) [Night at the Border]:

     山(산)밧에서 멀구광주리 이고 단니는

     sanbaseseo meolgugwangjuri igo dannineun

     who goes by in the mountain woods, carrying a basket of wild grapes on the head

3. (by extension) an area in which seaweed is cultivated

In Yukjin, the specific "dry field" definition that is the primary sense in the other Korean dialects is absent, and the term refers to any place with many plants or other natural entities.^[1]

• 田 (jeon), the hanja for "dry field"

• IPA^(key): /pàtʰ/, [pàt̚]

밭 (pàth) (isolated 받 (pàt), locative 바ᄐᆡ〮 (pàth-óy))

1. dry field (for crops)

• Korean: 밭 (bat)