karfiol

See also: Karfiol and karfiól

Czech

Alternative forms

• karfiól

Etymology

Borrowed from German Karfiol, from Italian cavolfiore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkarfɪjol]

Noun

karfiol m inan

1. cauliflower

   Synonym: květák

Declension

Declension of karfiol (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	karfiol	karfioly
genitive	karfiolu	karfiolů
dative	karfiolu	karfiolům
accusative	karfiol	karfioly
vocative	karfiole	karfioly
locative	karfiolu	karfiolech
instrumental	karfiolem	karfioly

Further reading

• “karfiol”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “karfiol”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Hungarian

karfiol

Etymology

Borrowed from Austrian German Karfiol, from Italian cavolfiore (“cauliflower”), from cavolo (“cabbage”) + fiore (“flower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒrfijol]
• Hyphenation: kar‧fi‧ol
• Rhymes: -ol

Noun

karfiol (plural karfiolok)

1. cauliflower

   Synonym: kelvirág

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	karfiol	karfiolok
accusative	karfiolt	karfiolokat
dative	karfiolnak	karfioloknak
instrumental	karfiollal	karfiolokkal
causal-final	karfiolért	karfiolokért
translative	karfiollá	karfiolokká
terminative	karfiolig	karfiolokig
essive-formal	karfiolként	karfiolokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	karfiolban	karfiolokban
superessive	karfiolon	karfiolokon
adessive	karfiolnál	karfioloknál
illative	karfiolba	karfiolokba
sublative	karfiolra	karfiolokra
allative	karfiolhoz	karfiolokhoz
elative	karfiolból	karfiolokból
delative	karfiolról	karfiolokról
ablative	karfioltól	karfioloktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	karfiolé	karfioloké
non-attributive possessive – plural	karfioléi	karfiolokéi

Possessive forms of karfiol

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	karfiolom	karfioljaim
2nd person sing.	karfiolod	karfioljaid
3rd person sing.	karfiolja	karfioljai
1st person plural	karfiolunk	karfioljaink
2nd person plural	karfiolotok	karfioljaitok
3rd person plural	karfioljuk	karfioljaik

Further reading

• karfiol 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

Noun

karfìōl m inan (Cyrillic spelling карфѝо̄л)

1. cauliflower

Declension

Declension of karfiol

	singular	plural
nominative	karfiol	karfioli
genitive	karfiola	karfiola
dative	karfiolu	karfiolima
accusative	karfiol	karfiole
vocative	karfiole	karfioli
locative	karfiolu	karfiolima
instrumental	karfiolom	karfiolima

Further reading

• “karfiol”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Slovak

Karfiol.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Karfiol, from Italian cavolfiore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /karfiɔl/, [ˈkarfiɔl]
• Rhymes: -iɔl
• Hyphenation: kar‧fi‧ol

Noun

karfiol m inan

1. cauliflower

Declension

Declension of karfiol
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	karfiol	karfioly
genitive	karfiolu	karfiolov
dative	karfiolu	karfiolom
accusative	karfiol	karfioly
locative	karfiole	karfioloch
instrumental	karfiolom	karfiolmi

Further reading

• “karfiol”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
• Králik, Ľubor (2016), “karfiol”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 257