кукуруз

Etymology
From, perhaps via.

Noun

 * 1) corn (U.S.), maize (British; )

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

The explanation that the term is borrowed from (attested in 15th-16th centuries, but exact sense unclear), ultimately from, from , remains frequently cited, but derivation from Turkic  was refuted by F. Miklošič and F. E. Korsch.

Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬,. 🇨🇬 was borrowed from Slavic.

The suggestion of a Slavic origin and a relationship to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, does not explain the word-form difficulties (-dz-). Compare 🇨🇬,,.

If the source were 🇨🇬, it should have originally had the meaning of "pine cones".

A noteworthy hypothesis for the source of "kukuru" is a word used for calling poultry for their feeding (with corn/maize).

Noun

 * 1) corn
 * 2) maize