Stupava (German: Stampfen; Hungarian: Stomfa) is a town in western Slovakia.

The name is derived from Proto-Slavic stǫpa (Slovak: stupa) - a wooden bowl carved from a tree trunk, but also the name of various crushing and pressing tools.

[4] The town is located in the Záhorie lowland, under the Little Carpathians, around 15 km (9 mi) north of Bratislava at an altitude of 182 metres.

It has been initially a separate village with ethnic Croatian majority, which was formally annexed by Stupava in 1953.

The name of the town comes from the pressing mills called stupa on the Stupavský potok brook, which were used for extracting oil from flax and hemp.