Ssaurabi
| Korean spelling | |
|---|---|
| Korean alphabet : | 싸울 아비 |
| Revised Romanization : | Ssaurabi |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Ssaurabi |
Ssaurabi is a modern Korean word creation meaning a man who fights . In South Korea , along with samurang , this is a popular false etymology of the Japanese word samurai .
It is not clear when this term was coined. Its earliest known use is from 1983: Kim Yong-woon, a math historian, writes in his book ( Kankokujin to Nihonjin )
“In Korean, ssaul means to fight and abi means man. In Korean, Ssaurabi would literally mean a man who fights . Even at the risk of being verbally abused, I have the amateurish idea that the Japanese samurai has some connections to the Korean ssaurabi . ... the Ssaurabi spirit, which disappeared in Korea, is the origin of the Japanese samurai spirit. "
The term Ssaurabi perhaps gained recognition among South Koreans in the 1990s because the computer game Samurai Shodown appeared in Korea under the name Ssaurabi Tuhon (싸울 아비 투혼) to circumvent anti-Japanese censorship.
Some Korean martial arts organizations claim that the Ssaurabi warriors came from the Kingdom of Baekje in southwestern Korea and that the Japanese samurai emerged from these. The South Korean film Saulabi (2002) by Moon Jong-geum refers to:
"Saulabi [sa wool ah bie]
1. an old Korean word for a noble swordsman
2. the etymology of the word samurai"
There is no historical evidence for the existence of ssaurabi in Baekje. Linguistically, it is difficult to explain the similarity between ssaurabi and samurai with regular correspondence between Koreans and Japanese. An anachronism becomes apparent when examining the older forms of ssauda , as this verb appears as sahoda in older Korean scripts. However, the use of sahorabi is also not proven.
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- ↑ Kim Yong-woon 金 容 雲: Kankokujin to Nihonjin韓国 人 と 日本人 (The Koreans and the Japanese), pp. 113–115, 1983: 韓国 語 で 戦 う と い う こ と を 「サ ウ ル ル と い い」 と ビ を を を 、 を を. 「戦う男」を韓国語でじかに表現すると, 「サウルアビ」になる.飛躍がすぎると叱られるのを覚悟で,アマチュア式思考でいうと,日本の「サムライ」と,韓国語の「サウルアビ」と,なにかつながりがありそうに考えられる. (中略)韓国ではすでに影をひそめたサウルアビ精神が,日本ではそのままサムライ精神となってのこっていたのだ.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.hapkidoselfdefense.com/history.htm
- ↑ http://www.taekwondobible.com/discussion/history/brief.htm
- ↑ http://saulabi.com/ ( Memento from January 20, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
