•to squat, to crouch (to stand with bent knees without the body touching the ground) · to sit on one's hind legs (of an animal) · to hang around, to loiter, to wait around (to stay somewhere for a long time, usually waiting for someone or something)
to crouch; to cause to crouch (a body part) · to exist in a suppressed or hidden state (usually as 웅크리고 있다 (ungkeurigo itda))
çekim: geçmiş 웅크렸다
köken: Originally an emphatic aspirated variant of earlier and now rare 웅그리다 (unggeurida), part of a wider family of movement-related verbs from an ancient ideophonic root /om~um/. Compare 움직이다 (umjigida, “to move”), 오므리다 (omeurida, “to cup one's hands”), 움츠리다 (umcheurida, “to shrink; to cringe”).