Krupa
Krupa (name) means a surname found in Polish, Czech, and other Slavic languages. Example: “Gene Krupa was a legendary jazz drummer.”
Word forms
- Plural
- Krupas
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Gene _____ was a legendary jazz drummer.
Etymology
* As a Polish, Ukrainian, Carpathian Rusyn, Lower Sorbian and Slovak surname, it comes from the noun krupa (“groats”). Compare Kruppa. * As a Czech surname, it is a variant of Kroupa. * As a Serbo-Croatian surname, it comes from krupa (“sleet, hail”), related to the above.