kukuruz

Unknown, but perhaps from Ottoman Turkish قوقوروز‎ (kukuruz, “maize”), from Albanian kokërrëz, from kokërr (“bead, pellet, grain”).

First attested as kukuruza 'buckwheat, Fagopyrum' in 17th-century Ivan Belostenec's Gazophylacium. Actual maize was introduced to Croatia from Southern Europe around 1611[1], and soon spread further into Balkans. In modern form and meaning since 1727[2]

• IPA^(key): /kukǔruz/
• Hyphenation: ku‧ku‧ruz

kukùruz m (Cyrillic spelling куку̀руз)

1. corn
2. maize

• kukurúza

“kukuruz” in Hrvatski jezični portal