кукурица

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Pannonian Rusyn

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Slovak kukurica. Further origin uncertain, but a regional wanderwort possibly derived from Ottoman Turkish قوقوروز (kukuruz).

Cognates include Belarusian кукуру́за (kukurúza), Bulgarian кукуру́з (kukurúz), кукума́ра (kukumára), кукура́тка (kukurátka), Czech kukuřice, Austrian German Kukuruz, Hungarian kukorica, Latvian kukurūza, Lithuanian kukurūzas, Polish kukurydza, Romanian cucuruz, Russian кукуру́за (kukurúza), Serbo-Croatian кукурузkukuruz, Slovak kukurica, Slovene kukuruza, kukorica, koruza, Turkish kokoroz, Ukrainian кукуру́дза (kukurúdza), and Yiddish קוקורוזע (kukuruze), קאָקורידזע (kokuridze), קוקורוץ (kukuruts), קוקורידזע (kukuridze), קאַקערוזע (kakeruze).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kukuˈrit͡sa]
  • Rhymes: -it͡sa
  • Hyphenation: ку‧ку‧ри‧ца

Noun

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кукурица (kukuricaf (diminutive кукуричка, related adjective кукурични)

  1. corn, maize
    варена кукурицаvarena kukuricaboiled corn
    кукурица у чуткохkukurica u čutkoxcorn on the cob

Declension

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