morsa

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmor.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈmoɾ.sa]

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.

• “morsa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.sa/
• Rhymes: -ɔrsa
• Hyphenation: mòr‧sa

morsa f (plural morse)

1. vice, vise, grip, clamp

• morsetto

• Rasmo

morsa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of morsum

morsa

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

morsā

1. ablative feminine singular of morsus

morsa n

1. definite plural of mors

morsa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.sa/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrsa
• Syllabification: mor‧sa

morsa m

1. genitive/accusative singular of mors

From Sami; compare Northern Sami morša.

• Hyphenation: mor‧sa

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus
2. vise

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾsa/ [ˈmoɾ.sa]
• Rhymes: -oɾsa
• Syllabification: mor‧sa

Borrowed from French morse, from Northern Sami morša.

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

• foca f

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

• “morsa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Hypocoristic form of mor, compare farsa and brorsa.

• IPA^(key): /²mʊʂa/

morsa c

1. (colloquial) mother

• When addressing one's own mother, the definite form morsan is used.

• mamma
• mor

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.

• IPA^(key): /²mɔʂa/

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

1. (colloquial) to greet

• mors

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

• Moras, moars