morsa

See also: morsă

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾsa/ [ˈmɔɾ.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔɾsa
• Hyphenation: mor‧sa

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

Further reading

• “morsa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

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

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

morsa

Etymology

Ultimately 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]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɻ.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.sa/ [ˈmɔh.sa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ.sɐ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾsɐ, (most of Brazil) -ɔʁsɐ, (Southern Brazil) -ɔɻsa
• Hyphenation: mor‧sa

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus
2. vise

Further reading

• “morsa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “morsa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French morse, from Northern Sami morša.

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

See also

• foca f

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian morsa.

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. (Rioplatense) (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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology 1

Hypocoristic form of mor, compare farsa and brorsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mʊʂa/

Noun

morsa c

1. (colloquial) mother

   Synonyms: mamma, mor

   Coordinate term: farsa

Usage notes

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

Declension

Declension of morsa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	morsa	morsas
	definite	morsan	morsans
plural	indefinite	morsor	morsors
	definite	morsorna	morsornas

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
present participle		morsande
past participle		morsad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• mors

References

• “morsa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “morsa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “morsa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Gerd Carling (2005), “musch”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 93

Anagrams

• Moras, moars