그리다
geurida
Definition
To draw or paint a picture; also used to mean to long for or miss someone or something.
Example
동생은 매일 공책에 그림을 그린다.
Show translation
My younger sibling draws pictures in a notebook every day.
Etymology
Native Korean verb. The root 그리- is shared with 그리움 ("longing, yearning"), revealing that the act of drawing and the ache of missing someone were historically felt as the same gesture — tracing an absent outline in the mind or on paper.
Cultural note
Korean has a beautiful overlap in meaning here that English splits into two different verbs. Saying 엄마가 그립다 ("I miss my mother") uses the same root as 그림을 그리다 ("to draw a picture"). This poetic connection — longing as an act of sketching someone in the heart — is deeply felt in Korean literature and song lyrics.