cupa

See also: Cupa, cupá, cupã, cupă, Cupă, čupa, çupa, and чупа

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cupa, from Middle English cuppe.

Noun

cupa m (genitive singular cupa, nominative plural cupaí)

1. cup
   1. (botany) cup (of flower)
2. cupel

Declension

Declension of cupa (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative cupa cupaí vocative a chupa a chupaí genitive cupa cupaí dative cupa cupaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an cupa na cupaí genitive an chupa na gcupaí dative leis an gcupa don chupa leis na cupaí

Derived terms

• cístín cupa (“cupcake”)
• (cluiche) cupa is liathróide (“cup-and-ball (game)”)
• cupa dearcáin (“acorn-cup”)
• cupa sróine (“a large thick nose”)
• cupa súcháin (“suction cup”)
• cupa súl (“eye-bath”)
• práta cupaí (“large variety of potatoes”)

Related terms

• cupán

Mutation

Mutated forms of cupa

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cupa	chupa	gcupa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cupa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cupa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “cupa”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cupa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.pa/
• Rhymes: -upa
• Hyphenation: cù‧pa

Adjective

cupa f sg

1. feminine singular of cupo