🌟 부럼

Noun  

1. 음력 1월 15일에 한 해 동안의 나쁜 기운을 물리치려고 깨물어 먹는 땅콩, 밤, 호두 등의 딱딱한 열매류.

1. BUREOM: nut: A hard fruit such as peanuts, chestnuts, walnuts, etc., which one eats on January 15th of the lunar calendar by crunching on the nut in order to ward off all the evils for a year.

🗣️ Usage Example:
  • 부럼을 까다.
    Blow the whistle.
  • 부럼을 깨다.
    Break the boom.
  • 부럼을 깨물다.
    Bite a burum.
  • 우리는 정월 대보름을 맞아 호두, 밤 등의 부럼을 깠다.
    On the fifteenth day of the first full moon of the new year, we took the call of walnuts, chestnuts, etc.
  • 정월 대보름 날 아침에 어머니께서 밤을 주시며 부럼을 깨물라고 하셨다.
    On the morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, my mother gave me chestnuts and asked me to bite the burums.
  • 오늘 점심은 구내식당에서 먹는 게 어때요?
    How about having lunch at the cafeteria today?
    좋아요. 정월 대보름이라 점심 메뉴가 오곡밥인 데다가 부럼도 챙겨 준다더라고요.
    All right. since it's the fifteenth of lunar january, the lunch menu is five-grain rice and they also give you burums.

🗣️ Pronunciation, Application: 부럼 (부ː럼)

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