도둑

Korean

Etymology

Often considered a nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 도적 (盜賊, dojeok, “thief, robber”), attested widely in Middle Korean as 도ᄌᆞᆨ (Yale: twòcòk), but this would entail the highly irregular shift /t͡s/ > /t/ in all varieties of Korean. Some kind of Sinitic source seems evident, however.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [to̞duk̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [도둑]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	doduk
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	dodug
McCune–Reischauer?	toduk
Yale Romanization?	totwuk

• South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 도둑의 / 도둑에 / 도둑까지

  Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes high pitch only on the second syllable, except before consonant-initial multisyllabic suffixes, when it takes full low pitch.

Noun

도둑 • (doduk)

1. thief

   도둑을 잡다 ― dodugeul japda ― to catch a thief

2. (metonymically) robbery, thievery

   도둑을 저지른 사람 ― dodugeul jeojireun saram ― person who has committed a thievery

Derived terms

• 도둑놈 (dodungnom)
• 도둑장가 (—丈家, dodukjangga)
• 도둑질 (dodukjil, “theft”)