Where does “바람잡이” come from?
바람잡이 (Korean) comes from Korean 바람, from Korean 바라다, from Korean -ㅁ.
바람잡이 (Korean): someone who pretends to be doing something very enthusiastically in order to trick the target into doing the same thing (especially in cases of fraud, gambling, prostitution, and other illicit activities)
Definitions
- someone who pretends to be doing something very enthusiastically in order to trick the target into doing the same thing (especially in cases of fraud, gambling, prostitution, and other illicit activities)
Ancestry of “바람잡이”, step by step
바람잡이 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Korean 바람
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean | 바람 | wind, air, draft; fad; vogue; fickleness |
| 2 | Korean | 바라다 | to wish, to want, to desire, to hope for, to long for |
| 3 | Korean | -ㅁ | — |
via Korean —이
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean | —이 | For non-honorific nouns ending in consonants, the nominative case particle marking it as the subject of a verb or adjective; see also Usage Notes |
| 2 | Middle Korean | 이 | person |
via Korean [[잡다
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean | [[잡다 | — |