kapusta

From Polish kapusta, Russian капу́ста (kapústa), Slovak kapusta, Ukrainian капу́ста (kapústa).

kapusta (uncountable)

1. A dish of braised or stewed sauerkraut or cabbage, with bacon, mushroom and onion or garlic.
   • 1979, Paul Wrobel, Our Way: Family, Parish, and Neighborhood in a Polish-American Community, Notre Dame, Ind., London: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 107:

     Fresh kiełbasa is made, center cut pork chops are trimmed just right, and the kapusta (sauerkraut) is prepared for cooking.

   • 2000, Jim Vozar, “Making Kapusta and Having Fun”, in Wisconsin Slovak‎^[1], Wisconsin Slovak Historical Society:

     Then the kapusta was packed into jars super tight and topped with a little kraut juice.

   • 2016, Kenna White, Virgin Territory‎^[2], Tallahassee, Fla.: Bella Books, →ISBN:

     And there would be the typical mother/daughter bickering over how much salt to add to the kapusta, a traditional cooked cabbage dish.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:kapusta.
2. Cabbage soup.
   • 1931, Albert Muldavin, The Red Fog Lifts, New York, N.Y., London: D. Appleton and Company, page 264:

     So you are the gentleman from America who has come to try out our kapusta (cabbage soup) and Communism. I am sure you will go back praising our kapusta.

   • 1952, Alf Evers, The Colonel’s Squad, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 18:

     The cabbage soup, the kapusta, it will be ready soon.

   • 1994 February 9, Beverly Bundy, “Riscky’s is back in the Saddle and almost as good”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 88th year, number 290, Forth Worth, Tex., section D, page 1:

     Another interesting offering is kapusta ($1.50 cup, $2.50 bowl), a sauerkraut soup native to Poland.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:kapusta.

• Braised sauerkraut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cabbage soup on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): [ˈkapusta]

kapusta f

1. the Gemmifera group of cabbages

   Synonym: brukev

• “kapusta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “kapusta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from dialectal Russian копы́стка (kopýstka) (compare Polish kopyść, kopystka).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑpustɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝pus̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑpustɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧pus‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧pus‧ta

kapusta

1. wooden spoon (spoon made from wood, commonly used in food preparation)

   Synonyms: puukauha, puulusikka

• → Karelian:
  • North Karelian: kapusta
  • South Karelian: kapusta

• “kapusta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• pakastu, paksuta, pusakat

Borrowed from Russian капуста (kapusta).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑpustɑ/, [ˈkɑpus̠t]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑpustɑ/, [ˈkɑb̥uʃtɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpust, -ɑpustɑ
• Hyphenation: ka‧pus‧ta

kapusta

1. cabbage (any of various cultivars)
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 39:

     Kapussan, lantut, porkkanat.

     Cabbage, turnips, carrots.

• (dialectal) kaali

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 119

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑpustɑ/
• Hyphenation: ka‧pus‧ta

Borrowed from Russian капуста (kapusta).

kapusta (genitive kapustan, partitive kapustua)

1. (South Karelian or dialectal) cabbage

• (North Karelian) kuali, (South Karelian, dialectal) kuali

Borrowed from Finnish kapusta.

kapusta (genitive kapustan, partitive kapustua)

1. ladle (deep-bowled spoon)

• (North Karelian) kauha, (South Karelian) pavarča

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kapusta”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “kapusta”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[4], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “поварёшка”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

An old Romance borrowing, probably formed from a contamination of Medieval Latin composita and caputium. Compare Belarusian капу́ста (kapústa), Kashubian kapùsta, Russian капу́ста (kapústa), Silesian kapusta, Slovak kapusta, Ukrainian капу́ста (kapústa), Serbo-Croatian kupus.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpus.ta/

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• Rhymes: -usta
• Syllabification: ka‧pus‧ta
• Homophone: Kapusta

kapusta f (diminutive kapustka, augmentative kapucha or kapuścisko, related adjective kapuściany or kapustny)

1. cabbage (plant)
2. cabbage (leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable)
3. (slang) cabbage (cash, money)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pieniądze

• → English: kapusta
• → Yiddish: קאַפּוסטע (kapuste)

kapusta m pers or f

1. (colloquial, derogatory) cabbage (person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage)
2. (slang) informant, snitch (one who relays confidential information)

• kapusta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kapusta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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• IPA^(key): [ˈkapusta]

kapusta f (relational adjective kapustový or kapustný, diminutive kapustička)

1. cabbage

• kapustnica
• kyslá kapusta

• → English: kapusta

• “kapusta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025