# cup
## Translingual
### Symbol

cup
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cupeño.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Cupeño terms

## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe (“cup”) and Old English copp (“cup, vessel”).
Old English cuppe is a borrowing from Late Latin cuppa, itself of obscure origin, but probably from earlier Latin cūpa (“tub, cask”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Old English copp, however, is from Proto-West Germanic *kopp (“round object, bowl, vessel, knoll, summit, crown of the head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”) (whence also obsolete English cop (“top, summit, crown of the head”), German Kopf (“top, head”)).
The Middle English word was further reinforced by Anglo-Norman cupe and Old French cope, coupe, from Latin cuppa. Compare also Saterland Frisian Kop (“cup”), West Frisian kop (“cup”), Dutch kop (“cup”), German Low German Koppke, Köppke (“cup”), Danish kop (“cup”), Swedish kopp (“cup”). Doublet of coupe, hive, and keeve.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kŭp, IPA: /kʌp/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* Audio (General American):(file)
* (Northern England, Ottawa Valley) IPA: /kʊp/
* Rhymes: -ʌp

### Noun

cup (plural cups)
* A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
    Coordinate terms: mug, pannikin
** 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
    Pour the tea into the cup.
* The contents of said vessel.
    Synonym: cupful
    I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
* A customary unit of measure
** (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces ($^1$⁄$_{16}$ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
** (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces ($^1$⁄$_{20}$ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
** (UK, dated) A British unit of measure equal to $^1$⁄$_2$ imperial pint (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
** (Australia, New Zealand) A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
* A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
    The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.
* A contest for which a cup is awarded.
    The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
* (soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
** 2002, Rob Dimery, Peter Watts, Guinness world records, Gullane Children's Books, →ISBN:Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.
** 2011, Michael Grant, Rob Robertson, The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses, Birlinn, →ISBN:Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season.
** 2014, Martí Perarnau, Pep Confidential: Inside Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich, Birlinn, →ISBN:One week earlier, they had lost 5-2 to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal [the German cup] final in Berlin.
* (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
    The ball just misses the cup.
* A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
* (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
    cider cup
    gin cup
    claret cup
* (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
    Synonym: (UK) box
    Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
** 2000 March 27, Bill Amend, FoxTrot‎ (comic):Boys, I thought I told you to let the store tell you what cup size you needed.
* One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
    The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
** Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
*** 2010, Tom Clancy, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Books 1-6, page 1149:"For cleavage to show up in these photos, a girl has to have C-cup breasts — at least that's what they told me once."
* (mathematics) The symbol $\cup$ denoting union and similar operations.
    Coordinate term: cap
* (tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
* (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
* A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
    Synonym: suction cup
* Anything shaped like a cup.
    the cup of an acorn
** 1745, William Shenstone, Elegy VIII:The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
** 2003, Garrett Hack, The Handplane Book, page 143:Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.
* (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
* (figurative) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 26:39:O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.

#### Derived terms

* acorn cup
* A cup
* A-cup
* audiocup
* band cup
* breakfastcup
* builder's cup
* builders' cup
* buttercup
* cage cup
* canteen cup
* caudle cup
* chirping cup
* chop cup
* claretcup
* coffee cup
* coffee-cup
* common brown cup
* creamcups
* cup-and-ball
* cup-and-saucer plant
* cup bearer, cupbearer, cup-bearer
* cupbearing
* cupboard
* cupcake
* cup check
* cup cheese
* cup custard
* cup discharger
* cupel
* cup final
* Cup Final
* cupflower
* cup fungus
* cup gall
* cuphead
* cup holder
* cupholder
* cupless
* cuplet
* cup lichen
* cuplike
* cupmaker
* cupmaking
* cupman
* cupmate
* cup moss
* cup moth
* cup noodles
* cup of coffee
* cup of joe
* cup of tea
* cup o' joe
* cup orchid
* cuppa
* cupper
* Cuppers
* cup plant
* cuppy
* cup-rose
* cupseed
* cupset
* cup shake
* cup-shaped
* cup-shot
* cup-shotten
* cup size
* cupsona
* cup stacking
* cupster
* cupstone
* cupsworth
* cup that cheers
* cup tie
* cup-tied
* cup-tosser
* cup towel
* cupule
* cupward
* cupware
* cupwing
* cupwise
* death cup
* demicup
* dixie cup
* Dixie cup
* drink from the furry cup
* drinking-cup
* earcup
* egg cup, eggcup
* eyecup
* Faraday cup
* flip cup
* fringecup
* fruit cup
* fuddling cup
* go cup
* go down like a cup of cold sick
* go down like a cup of sick
* goldcup
* golden cup
* golden-cup oak
* grace-cup
* Grey Cup
* huntsman's cup
* keep cup
* kingcup
* leafcup
* league cup
* let this cup pass from me
* Little-Master cup
* loving cup
* macrocup
* Magdalen cup
* measuring cup
* menstrual cup
* mini-cup
* minicup
* mini cup
* monkey-cup
* monkey cup
* mooncup
* mossycup
* moustache cup
* muffin cup
* mustache cup
* Neptune's cup
* oilcup
* optic cup
* paper cup
* parabolic cup
* parting-cup
* PB cup
* peanut butter cup
* peanut-butter cup
* Pimm's cup
* pimp cup
* pixie cup
* queen cup
* queen's cup
* shaving-cup
* shooter cup
* shot cup
* siphon cup
* sippy cup
* skullcup
* sneak-cup
* someone's cup of tea
* splash cup
* standing cup
* stirrup cup
* suncup
* supercup
* super cup
* tailcup
* Tantalus cup
* teacup
* tea cup
* tea-cup
* that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee
* that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee
* that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffee
* there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
* there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
* there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
* whitecup
* wine cup
* wine-cup
* winecup
* world cup
* you can't pour from an empty cup

#### Descendants

* → Farefare: kɔpɩ
* → Hebrew: קאפ (kap)
* → Japanese: カップ (kappu)
* → Kashubian: kopsa (Canada, United States)
* → Korean: 컵 (keop)
* → Maori: kapu

#### Translations

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### Verb

cup (third-person singular simple present cups, present participle cupping, simple past and past participle cupped)
* (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
    Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
* (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
    He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
* (transitive) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
    We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
* (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
** c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:Cup us, till the world go round.
* (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
* (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
    to cup the end of a screw

#### Derived terms

* recup
* uncup

#### Translations
### Further reading

* cup on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* CPU, P.U.C., PUC, Pcu, UCP, UPC

## Albanian
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *tˢupa, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁-po- (compare Sanskrit शोफ (śópha, “swelling”)), from *ḱuh₁- (“to swell up”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tsup/

#### Adjective

cup (feminine cupe)
* odd (not even)

##### Synonyms

* tek

### Etymology 2

Gheg variant of sup.

#### Noun

cup m (plural cupe, definite cupi, definite plural cupet)
* shoulder

##### Declension
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin cūpus, a variant of cūpa (“tub, cask, tun, vat”).

### Noun

cup m (plural cups)
* winepress
* cellar

#### Derived terms

* acubar
* cubada
* cubell
* cubeta

#### Related terms

* cúpula

### Further reading

* “cup” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capus, masculinization of Latin caput. Compare Italian capo, Romanian cap, Spanish cabo.

### Noun

cup m
* head

## Finnish
### Etymology

From English cup.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɑp/, [ˈkɑ̝p]
* Rhymes: -ɑp
* Hyphenation: cup

### Noun

cup
* cup (contest)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of cup (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
cupini
cupini
accusative
nom.
cupini
cupini
gen.
cupini
genitive
cupini
cupieni
partitive
cupiani
cupejani
inessive
cupissani
cupeissani
elative
cupistani
cupeistani
illative
cupiini
cupeihini
adessive
cupillani
cupeillani
ablative
cupiltani
cupeiltani
allative
cupilleni
cupeilleni
essive
cupinani
cupeinani
translative
cupikseni
cupeikseni
abessive
cupittani
cupeittani
instructive
comitative
—cupeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
cupisi
cupisi
accusative
nom.
cupisi
cupisi
gen.
cupisi
genitive
cupisi
cupiesi
partitive
cupiasi
cupejasi
inessive
cupissasi
cupeissasi
elative
cupistasi
cupeistasi
illative
cupiisi
cupeihisi
adessive
cupillasi
cupeillasi
ablative
cupiltasi
cupeiltasi
allative
cupillesi
cupeillesi
essive
cupinasi
cupeinasi
translative
cupiksesi
cupeiksesi
abessive
cupittasi
cupeittasi
instructive
comitative
—cupeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
cupimme
cupimme
accusative
nom.
cupimme
cupimme
gen.
cupimme
genitive
cupimme
cupiemme
partitive
cupiamme
cupejamme
inessive
cupissamme
cupeissamme
elative
cupistamme
cupeistamme
illative
cupiimme
cupeihimme
adessive
cupillamme
cupeillamme
ablative
cupiltamme
cupeiltamme
allative
cupillemme
cupeillemme
essive
cupinamme
cupeinamme
translative
cupiksemme
cupeiksemme
abessive
cupittamme
cupeittamme
instructive
comitative
—cupeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
cupinne
cupinne
accusative
nom.
cupinne
cupinne
gen.
cupinne
genitive
cupinne
cupienne
partitive
cupianne
cupejanne
inessive
cupissanne
cupeissanne
elative
cupistanne
cupeistanne
illative
cupiinne
cupeihinne
adessive
cupillanne
cupeillanne
ablative
cupiltanne
cupeiltanne
allative
cupillenne
cupeillenne
essive
cupinanne
cupeinanne
translative
cupiksenne
cupeiksenne
abessive
cupittanne
cupeittanne
instructive
comitative
—cupeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
cupinsa
cupinsa
accusative
nom.
cupinsa
cupinsa
gen.
cupinsa
genitive
cupinsa
cupiensa
partitive
cupiaan cupiansa
cupejaan cupejansa
inessive
cupissaan cupissansa
cupeissaan cupeissansa
elative
cupistaan cupistansa
cupeistaan cupeistansa
illative
cupiinsa
cupeihinsa
adessive
cupillaan cupillansa
cupeillaan cupeillansa
ablative
cupiltaan cupiltansa
cupeiltaan cupeiltansa
allative
cupilleen cupillensa
cupeilleen cupeillensa
essive
cupinaan cupinansa
cupeinaan cupeinansa
translative
cupikseen cupiksensa
cupeikseen cupeiksensa
abessive
cupittaan cupittansa
cupeittaan cupeittansa
instructive
comitative
—cupeineen cupeinensa :

#### Derived terms

* cup-kilpailu
* cupvoittaja
* maailmancup

### Further reading

* “cup”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English cup (“trophy”).

### Noun

cup m (definite singular cupen, indefinite plural cuper, definite plural cupene)
* (sports) cup (trophy; the competition culminating in the winning of the trophy)

#### Derived terms

* cupfinale
* verdenscup

#### Related terms

* pokal

### References

* “cup” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English cup (“trophy”).

### Noun

cup m (definite singular cupen, indefinite plural cupar, definite plural cupane)
* (sports) cup (as above)

#### Derived terms

* cupfinale

#### Related terms

* pokal

### References

* “cup” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cup.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɵp/, /kap/
* Rhymes: -ɵp, -ap

### Noun

cup c
* (sports) cup

#### Declension
### References

* cup in Svensk ordbok (SO)

## Zhuang
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *cuːpᴰ (“to kiss”). Cognate with Thai จูบ (jùup), Lao ຈູບ (chūp), Shan ၸုပ်ႇ (tsùp).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ɕup˥/
* Tone numbers: cup$^7$
* Hyphenation: cup

### Verb

cup (Sawndip forms ⿱吻十 or 㗩 or 𱃨 or 習 or 哫 or 𫺿, 1957–1982 spelling cup)
* to inhale; to draw (a breath)
* to suck
* to kiss
* to smell; to sniff
* to absorb; to take up; to soak up