popcorn

See also Popcorn

English

Popcorn.

Alternative forms

• pop-corn, popped corn

Etymology

From English popped (shortened) + corn

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɒp.kɔː(ɹ)n/ X-SAMPA: /"pQpkO:n/
• (US) IPA: /ˈpɑp.kɔɹn/ X-SAMPA: /"pApkOrn/
• (Boston, New England) IPA: /ˈpʌp.kɔrn/, [ˈpʌp.kɒːn], [ˈpʌp.kɔɹn]

Noun

popcorn (countable and uncountable; plural popcorns)

1. (chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating.
2. (knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.

Derived terms

• popcorn movie

Translations

popcorn

• Arabic: فشار (ar) (fushaar) m, بوبكورن (ar) (bubkuurn) m
• Armenian: ադի-բուդի (hy) (adi-budi)
• Bengali: পপকর্ন (bn) (popkorn)
• Bulgarian: пукакнка  (bg) (pukaknka) f
• Cebuano: papkorn
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玉米花 (cmn) (yùmǐhuā), 爆米花 (cmn) (bàomǐhuā)

• Czech: popcorn (cs) m
• Dutch: gepofte maïs m, pof-maïs m, popcorn m
• Esperanto: krevmaizo (eo), pufmaizo (eo)
• Finnish: popcorn (fi), paukkumaissi (fi), paahtomaissi (fi)
• French: popcorn m, maïs soufflé m, maïs éclaté m (Canadian French)
• Georgian: პოპკორნი (ka) (popkorni), ბატი-ბუტი (ka) (bati-buti)
• German: Popcorn (de) n, Puffmais (de) m
• Hindi: पॉपकॉर्न (hi) (popkorn)
• Hungarian: pattogatott kukorica (hu)
• Icelandic: poppkorn (is) n
• Japanese: ポップコーン (ja) (poppukōn)
• Korean: 팝콘 (ko) (papkon)
• Malay: bertih jagung

• Navajo: naadą́ą́ʼ dilchxoshí, diltáłii
• Persian: پف فیل (fa) (pofefil), چس فیل (fa) (ĉosefil)
• Polish: popcorn (pl) m
• Portuguese: pipoca (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਪੋਪਕੋਰਨ (pa) (popkorn) m, ਭੁੱਟਾ (pa) (phutta) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: попкорн (ru) (popkórn) m
• Spanish: palomitas de maíz f (especially Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain), cabritas f (Chile), cancha f (Peru - also canchita), canguil m (Ecuador), cocaleca f (Dominican Republic), cotufas f (Spain’s Canary Islands, Venezuela), crispetas f (Colombia, Northern Central Mexico), esquites m (Northwestern Mexico), gallitos m (Northwestern Venezuela), maíz pira f (Colombia), millo m (Panama), pipoca f (Bolivia), pochoclo m (Argentina), pop m (Uruguay), popcorn m (Panama, Puerto Rico), poporopo m (Guatemala), pororó m (Eastern Bolivia, Northern and Western Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), pururú m (Northern Central Argentina), roscas f (Spain’s Canary Islands), rosetas de maíz f (El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Southern Spain), rositas de maíz f (Cuba), tostones m (Southeastern Spain)
• Swahili: bisi (sw)
• Swedish: popcorn (sv) n
• Thai: ป๊อปคอร์น (th) (popcorn)
• Turkish: patlamış mısır (tr)
• Vietnamese: bắp rang (vi)

See also

• brownie
• cake
• candy cane
• chip, potato chip / potato crisp
• Cracker Jack
• donut / doughnut
• ice cream
• jelly roll, Swiss roll
• pretzel

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Polish

Noun

popcorn m

1. popcorn

Declension

    declension of popcorn

	singular only
nominative	popcorn
genitive	popcornu
dative	popcornowi
accusative	popcorn
instrumental	popcornem
locative	popcornie
vocative	popcornie