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”). First attested in the 16th century.

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

Further reading

• “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