morsa

See also: morsă

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.sə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.sə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.sa/

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.

Further reading

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

Galician

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

morsa f (plural morse)

1. vice, vise, grip, clamp

Derived terms

• morsetto

Anagrams

• Rasmo

Latin

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

morsa

Etymology

From Sami; compare Northern Sami morša.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.sɐ/ [ˈmɔh.sɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.sɐ/ [ˈmɔh.sɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ.sɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.sɐ/ [ˈmɔχ.sɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɻ.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ.sɐ/

• Hyphenation: mor‧sa

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus
2. vise

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From French morse, from Northern Sami morša.

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

See also

• foca f

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

• “morsa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• “morsa” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Hypocoristic form of mor, compare farsa and brorsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mʊʂa/

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

• mamma
• mor

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

• IPA^(key): /²mɔʂa/

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

• mors

References

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

Anagrams

• Moras, moars