Coup

German (Berlin)

noun

Definitions

coup quick, brilliant, and highly successful act
coup d'état

Etymology

Borrowed from French coup (strike, blow, hit).

Origin

French

coup

Gloss

strike, blow, hit

Concept

Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

count coup English
coup English
colpus Latin
coup Dutch, Flemish
beaucoup French
coup French
κόλᾰφος Ancient Greek
kupp Norwegian Bokmål
kupp Swedish
kupp Norwegian Nynorsk
kup Danish
colp Old French