kupa

kupa

1. inflection of kupë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

• Hyphenation: ku‧pa

kupa

1. a grade

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kupa.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈkupa]
• Hyphenation: ku‧pa

kupa f

1. heap

   dát něco do kupy ― to put something in order, to fix something up

   Dej se do kupy. ― Pull it together.

• kopa

• “kupa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “kupa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “kupa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈkupɒ]

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• Hyphenation: ku‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

kupa (plural kupák)

1. cup, goblet, tankard
2. cup, trophy

   Synonym: serleg

• kupa in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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• IPA^(key): /ku.pa/

kupa

1. (Kamnyu) Chinese; Han (person)

From Proto-Slavic *kupa (“pile, heap”)

kupa f

1. island

• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “kupa”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kupa.

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• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: ku‧pa

kupa f (diminutive kupka or kupcia, augmentative kupsko, related adjective kupowy)

1. heap
2. (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl) poo, poop, turd

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kupa

   Na chodniku leżała psia kupa. ― There was a dog turd on the sidewalk.

3. (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl) group, crowd
   • 1886, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Potop, volume 1:

     […] można było odróżnić obcych żołnierzy, wieśniaków, niewiasty ciągnione przez rajtarów i broniących się bezładnymi kupami mężów.

     (…) you could distinguish foreign soldiers, paesants, women pulled by raytars and men defending themselves in disorganized groups.

4. (colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian, Kielce, Biecz) a lot

• kupa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kupa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “kupa”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 112
• Aleksander Saloni (1899) “kupa”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 240
• Jan Łoś (1886) “kupa”, in “Gwara opoczyńska. Studium dialektologiczne”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (1), volume 11, page 185
• Roman Zawiliński (1880) “kupa”, in “Gwara brzezińska w pow. ropczyckim”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I) (in Polish), volume 8, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 229

Borrowed from Italian coppa.

• IPA^(key): /kûpa/
• Hyphenation: ku‧pa

kȕpa f (Cyrillic spelling ку̏па)

1. cup, goblet
2. (Serbia, geometry) cone
3. cups in Spanish playing cards

Spanish suits in Serbo-Croatian · talijanske karte (layout · text)
špada, spada	kupa	dinar	bašton, baštun

kupa (Cyrillic spelling купа)

1. third-person singular present of kupati

Possibly related to kup (“pile, heap”), or otherwise related to Latin cuppa (“drinking vessel”), Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vessel, container”).

• IPA^(key): /kùːpa/

kúpa f

1. beaker

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Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	kúpa
gen. sing.	kúpe
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	kúpa	kúpi	kúpe
genitive (rodȋlnik)	kúpe	kúp	kúp
dative (dajȃlnik)	kúpi	kúpama	kúpam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	kúpo	kúpi	kúpe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	kúpi	kúpah	kúpah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	kúpo	kúpama	kúpami

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-kupa (inf kukupa)

1. -ku- (second-person singular object concord) with indicative of -pa (“to give to you”)

Inherited from Old Swedish kupa (“bowl”), likely from Middle Low German kupe (“bowl; barrel”), from Latin cūpa (“barrel”). Doublet of kupol.

• IPA^(key): /kʉːpa/

kupa c

1. a hood, cover
2. a cup (of a bra)
3. (short for “bikupa”) a beehive

• bikupa
• glaskupa
• konjakskupa
• kupig
• ostkupa

kupa (present kupar, preterite kupade, supine kupat, imperative kupa)

1. to fold one’s hand as into a cup
2. to earth up; to cover the stem of a plant with soil

• kupning

• kupa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kupa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kupa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• puka

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوپه. From one or more of Greek κούπα (koúpa), Italian coppa, and French coupe, ultimately from Late Latin cuppa, from Classical Latin cūpa (“tub, cask, vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”).

kupa (definite accusative kupayı, plural kupalar)

1. cup, goblet
2. (sports) cup
   • 1935 June 19, article from Anadolu Agency printed in Yeni Mersin:

     Balkan kupası ayak topu maçlarına başlanmıştır.

     Balkan cup football matches started

3. (card games) hearts

Suits in Turkish · takım (layout · text)
kupa	orya, karo	maça	ispati, sinek

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوپه, from French coupé.

kupa (definite accusative kupayı, plural kupalar)

1. coupe, coupé, a two-seater sports car
2. (historical) coupé, a four-wheeled carriage with two seats inside

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kupa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2839
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kupa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkupa/
• Rhymes: -upa
• Hyphenation: ku‧pa
• Syllabification: ku‧pa

From Proto-Slavic *kupa (“pile, heap”)

kupa f

1. (geography) island (portion of land surrounded by water, in oceans, seas and lakes)

   Grönlandska je najwjetša kupa swěta. ― Greenland is the largest island in the world.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kupa

1. genitive singular of kup

• “kupa” in Soblex