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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مهمز (mahmuz) (compare Turkish mahmuz), from Persian مهمیز (mahmiz), from Arabic مِهْمَاز (mihmāz).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mǎmuza/
- Hyphenation: ma‧mu‧za
Noun
màmuza f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀муза)
- spur
- Synonym: ostruga
- 1985, Darko Rundek, “Šejn” (lyrics):
Ja cijeli zivot sanjam kako odlazim uz rijeku
Starim parobrodom koji vozi skitnice na zapad
I da nosim jednu davnu, nikad prežaljenu ljubav,
Tanku dugačku cigaru i par mamuza od zlata.- All my life I’ve been dreaming that I’m setting off upriver
On an old steamboat that’s carrying tramps to the West,
And that I carry an old love I’ve never gotten over,
A long, thin cigar, and a few golden spurs.
Declension
References
- “mamuza”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024