kupus

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kappus (“cabbage”), with the first -u- coming by merger with another word with the same meaning. Compare dialectal Serbo-Croatian kapuc, kapus (from Venetan capuzzo), and also Old Serbo-Croatian (Kajkavian) kupust (ultimately from Latin composita (“mixed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǔpus/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧pus

Noun

kùpus m inan (Cyrillic spelling ку̀пус)

  1. cabbage

Declension

Declension of kupus
singular
nominative kupus
genitive kupusa
dative kupusu
accusative kupus
vocative kupuse
locative kupusu
instrumental kupusom

References

  • “kupus”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “kupus”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 360
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