Korean

Noun

무리 • ‎(muri)

1. group, crowd, gang, horde

Etymology 2

First attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as 모로 (Yale: mwolwo). Seo (2000) (徐廷範, 國語語源辭典) considered this cognate with 모레 (more, “the day after tomorrow”) (as in 내일모레 (來日—, naeilmore, “the day after tomorrow”) and the 마 (ma) in 마파람 (maparam, “south wind”). He postulated that all of the above were forms in which the ancient word for "sun" (*mol) was preserved.

Alternatively, Starostin postulates Proto-Altaic *múra ‎(“round; turn, return”) and lists muri as a descendant, making it cognate with Japanese 丸 (まる) ‎(maru, “ball; circular thing”) and 丸 (まる)い ‎(marui, “round, circular”). This is cited as an example in Robbeets (2005) "Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?".

Noun

무리 • ‎(muri)

1. halo, ring

Synonyms

• 고리 (gori, “ring, circle”)

Derived terms

• 햇무리 (haenmuri, “halo around the sun”)
• 달무리 (dalmuri, “halo around the moon”)

Etymology 3

Sino-Korean word from 無理, from 無 ‎(“lack”) + 理 ‎(“reason”)

Noun

무리 • ‎(muri) ‎(hanja 無理)

1. absurdity, irrationality, unreasonableness

Derived terms

• 무리하다 (無理—, murihada, “absurd”)