krompir

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• krùmpīr (Croatia)

Etymology

Borrowed from Bavarian grumper, krumbeer, krumpir (literally “ground pear”) (cognate to German Grundbirne).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krǒmpiːr/
• Hyphenation: krom‧pir

Noun

kròmpīr m inan (Cyrillic spelling кро̀мпӣр)

1. (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia) potato

Declension

Declension of krompir

	singular	plural
nominative	kròmpīr	krompiri
genitive	krompíra	krompira
dative	krompiru	krompirima
accusative	krompir	krompire
vocative	krompire	krompiri
locative	krompiru	krompirima
instrumental	krompirom	krompirima

Descendants

• → Albanian: kompirë
• → Aromanian: cumpiri
• → Macedonian: компир (kompir)

Slovene

Etymology

From dialectal Austrian German Grundbirne, Gruntbir (“ground pear”), from Grund (“ground”) + Birne (“pear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krɔmpìːr/, /krɔmpíːr/

Noun

krompīr m inan

1. potato

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing.	krompír
gen. sing.	krompírja
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	krompír	krompírja	krompírji
genitive (rodȋlnik)	krompírja	krompírjev	krompírjev
dative (dajȃlnik)	krompírju	krompírjema	krompírjem
accusative (tožȋlnik)	krompír	krompírja	krompírje
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	krompírju	krompírjih	krompírjih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	krompírjem	krompírjema	krompírji

Further reading

• “krompir”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025