"전자레인지"
Translation:Microwave
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Microwave as in the wave particles and microwave as in the oven are used as the same word. No one says microwave oven these days.
The same in English, but not in Korean, so a distinction is appropriate.
Well I think microwave ovens are a different thing from microwaves as well, not just that they're less common. Microwave ovens are basically just smaller, less powerful ovens, and in my experience will reheat leftover food more nicely (like fries) than microwaves
I believe this would be a toaster oven, which does not use microwaves. Usually called 토스터 오븐 or just 토스터
Just guessing here, but if 전 means "before", then it could be similar to "infra" in this case. So if you're right about "range" then it could be "the range (of wavelengths) before 자"--whatever 자 is. (Probably not even a Sino-Korean origin for "red" because that would make the word mean "infrared", but microwaves are even further outside of the visible spectrum than infrared.)
My guess is wrong. According to Wiktionary, it comes from 전자 meaning electron which is a loan word from Chinese, which first got it as a loan word from Japanese, which created it from Middle Chinese words meaning lightning particle.
