morsa

See also: morsă

Catalan

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

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

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Italian

Noun

morsa f (plural morse)

1. vice, grip, clamp

Derived terms

• morsetto

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) morsa

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

Participle

(deprecated template usage) morsā

1. ablative feminine singular of morsus

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

morsa n

1. definite plural of mors

Verb

morsa

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

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Polish

Noun

morsa m

1. genitive/accusative singular of mors

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Portuguese

morsa

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  morša.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ.sɐ/
• Hyphenation: mor‧sa

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

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Spanish

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French morse, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  morša.

Noun

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

See also

• foca f

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Swedish

Etymology

• (noun) Hypocoristic form of mor, compare farsa and brorsa.
• (verb) 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

• (noun) IPA^(key): /²mursa/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /²mɔrsa/

Noun

morsa c

1. (colloquial) mother

Declension

Declension of morsa
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	morsa	morsan	morsor	morsorna
Genitive	morsas	morsans	morsors	morsornas

Synonyms

• mamma
• mor

Verb

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

• moars