kupus

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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 Venetian capuzzo), and also Old Serbo-Croatian (Kajkavian) kupust (ultimately from Latin composita (“mixed”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kùpus m (Cyrillic spelling ку̀пус)

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