morsa

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmor.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus

• “morsa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• 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/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔrsa
• Syllabification: mor‧sa

morsa m

1. genitive/accusative singular of mors

Ultimately from Sami; compare Northern Sami morša.

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

morsa f (plural morsas)

1. walrus
2. vise

• “morsa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• 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. (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

• “morsa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Hypocoristic form of mor, compare farsa and brorsa.

• IPA^(key): /²mʊʂa/

morsa c

1. (colloquial) mother

   Synonyms: mamma, mor

   Coordinate term: farsa

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

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)
• morsa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• morsa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Gerd Carling (2005) “musch”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 93

• Moras, moars