kupica

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian купица / kupica (“noggin, small cup”), from ку̏па / kȕpa (“cup, goblet”). See also Slovene kupica (“drinking glass”). Doublet of kupa. First attested in 1725–1764.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkupit͡sɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ku‧pi‧ca
  • Rhymes: -t͡sɒ

Noun

kupica (plural kupicák)

  1. (informal) a stemless shot glass, usually smaller than 50 ml
    Synonyms: pálinkáspohár, stampedli

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative kupica kupicák
accusative kupicát kupicákat
dative kupicának kupicáknak
instrumental kupicával kupicákkal
causal-final kupicáért kupicákért
translative kupicává kupicákká
terminative kupicáig kupicákig
essive-formal kupicaként kupicákként
essive-modal — —
inessive kupicában kupicákban
superessive kupicán kupicákon
adessive kupicánál kupicáknál
illative kupicába kupicákba
sublative kupicára kupicákra
allative kupicához kupicákhoz
elative kupicából kupicákból
delative kupicáról kupicákról
ablative kupicától kupicáktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		kupicáé kupicáké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		kupicáéi kupicákéi
Possessive forms of kupica
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kupicám kupicáim
2nd person sing. kupicád kupicáid
3rd person sing. kupicája kupicái
1st person plural kupicánk kupicáink
2nd person plural kupicátok kupicáitok
3rd person plural kupicájuk kupicáik

Derived terms

  • kupicás
  • kupicázik

References

  1. ^ kupica in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

  • kupica 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.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Noun

kupica f (Cyrillic spelling купица)

  1. (Kajkavian) noggin, cup

Descendants

  • → Hungarian: kupica
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