cucuruz

== Romanian == === Etymology === Attested 1575 as Cucurezi, the name of a village (today Cucuruzu, Giurgiu County), as Cucuruz from 1621. As maize (cucurudz, triticum turcicum) in Dictionarium Valachico-Latinum (Caransebeș, c. 1650). From Latin cucullus "hood, doll, cocoon" via a Balkan word – Aromanian cucul, Albanian kukull – with rhotacism l > r and suffix -uz (originally -ëz). The reference is to the wrapped, cocoon-like nature of the maize cob. The Latin word itself may be a loan from Illyrian. Older theories posited a development from a base coc – cf. buburuză, from bob "grain, bean" – with a primary meaning of "pine cone". From Romanian and Serbo-Croatian kukuruz, the word spread into other languages, e.g. Hungarian kukorica, Russian кукуруза, Ottoman Turkish قوقوروز, &c. === Noun === cucuruz m (plural cucuruzi) (Transylvania) maize, corn Synonyms: porumb, păpușoi corncob Synonyms: știulete, ciocălău, cocean pine cone or cone of another conifer Synonym: con (de brad) ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Serbo-Croatian: kukuruz → German: Kukuruz → Slovene: koruza Hungarian: kukorica → Slovak: kukurica → Czech: kukuřice Ukrainian: кукуру́дза → Polish: kukurydza → Russian: кукуруза (kukuruza)→ Armenian: կուկուռուզ (kukuṙuz)→ Georgian: კუკურუზა (ḳuḳuruza)→ Kildin Sami: кукуруза (kukuruza)→ Latvian: kukurūza→ Lithuanian: kukurūzas→ Bashkir: кукуруз (kukuruz) Ottoman Turkish: قوقوروز Turkish: kokoroz (dialectal) Tatar: кукуруз (ququruz /⁠kukuruz⁠/) Yiddish: קוקורוזע (kukuruze) === References ===