morsa

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See also: morsă

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French morse, from Russian морж (morž).

Pronunciation

Noun

morsa f (plural morses)

  1. walrus
    • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 1, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
      Duien pells tan contundents que feien pensar en cossos de morsa.
      They brought furs so thick they brought to mind bodies of walruses.

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Galician

Pronunciation

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Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

  1. walrus

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

morsa f (plural morse)

  1. vice, vise, grip, clamp

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

morsa

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of morsum

Participle

morsa

  1. inflection of morsus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Participle

morsā

  1. ablative feminine singular of morsus

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

morsa n

  1. definite plural of mors

Verb

morsa

  1. inflection of morse:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔr.sa/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrsa
  • Syllabification: mor‧sa

Noun

morsa m

  1. genitive/accusative singular of mors

Portuguese

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morsa

Etymology

From Sami; compare Northern Sami morša.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: mor‧sa

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

  1. walrus
  2. vise

Spanish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmoɾsa/
  • Rhymes: -oɾsa
  • Syllabification: mor‧sa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French morse, from Northern Sami morša.

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

  1. walrus
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

morsa m (plural morsas)

  1. (Argentina, Uruguay) (US) vise, (UK) vice (an instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing)
    Synonym: tornillo de banco

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology 1

Hypocoristic form of mor, compare farsa and brorsa.

Pronunciation

Noun

morsa c

  1. (colloquial) mother
Usage notes
  • When addressing one's own mother, the definite form morsan is used.
Declension
Declension of morsa 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative morsa morsan morsor morsorna
Genitive morsas morsans morsors morsornas
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From the greeting mors. Possibly an alteration of morgon (“morning”), or from Tavringer Romani mus, muss, musij, mossj, måssj (“man, person”), from Romani murś (“man”). Related to Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “man”). Compare English mush.

Pronunciation

Verb

morsa (present morsar, preterite morsade, supine morsat, imperative morsa)

  1. (colloquial) to greet
Conjugation
Conjugation of morsa (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive morsa morsas
Supine morsat morsats
Imperative morsa —
Imper. plural1 morsen —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative morsar morsade morsas morsades
Ind. plural1 morsa morsade morsas morsades
Subjunctive2 morse morsade morses morsades
Participles
Present participle morsande
Past participle morsad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Related terms

References

  • morsa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • Gerd Carling (2005) “musch”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 93

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