zupa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "zupa"

English

Noun

zupa (plural zupas)

An administrative unit among various South Slavic peoples.

Related terms

zupan

Latvian

zupa on Latvian Wikipedia

Alternative forms

(obsolete form) zupe

Etymology

Borrowed from German Suppe, itself partly via French soupe, partly via Middle Low German sope, from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare also sūpen “to drink; to eat with a spoon,” German saufen “to drink; to booze”), ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European stem (*seu-, *sū- “juice; moisture”) as the verb sūkt (“to suck”). This word was borrowed before the 17th century; it is first mentioned in writing in the 18th century (as zupe), but only in the 19th century did it become frequent. The modern form zupa also became dominant in the 19th century.^[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

zupa f (4th declension)

soup (boiled liquid food, usually containing meat, fish, vegetables or cereal products)
gaļas, dārzeņu, sēņu zupa ― meat, vegetable, mushroom soup

kāpostu, sakņu, piena zupa ― cabbage, root, milk soup

ļoti garšīga zupa ― a very tasty soup

veģetāra zupa ― vegetarian soup

aukstās zupas ― cold soups

zupas kauss ― soup bowl

zupas karotes ― soup spoons

šovakar mums biešu zupa; te rudzu maize ― tonight we have beet soup; here (is) the rye bread

Declension

Declension of zupa (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	zupa	zupas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	zupu	zupas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	zupas	zupu
dative (datīvs)	zupai	zupām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	zupu	zupām
locative (lokatīvs)	zupā	zupās
vocative (vokatīvs)	zupa	zupas