mamuza

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مهمز (mahmuz) (compare Turkish mahmuz), from Persian مهمیز (mahmiz), from Arabic مِهْمَاز (mihmāz).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mǎmuza/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧mu‧za

Noun

màmuza f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀муза)

  1. spur
    Synonym: ostruga
    • 1985, Darko Rundek, “Šejn” (lyrics):
      Ja cijeli zivot sanjam kako odlazim uz rijeku
      Starim parobrodom koji vozi skitnice na zapad
      I da nosim jednu davnu, nikad prežaljenu ljubav,
      Tanku dugačku cigaru i par mamuza od zlata.
      All my life I’ve been dreaming that I’m setting off upriver
      On an old steamboat that’s carrying tramps to the West,
      And that I carry an old love I’ve never gotten over,
      A long, thin cigar, and a few golden spurs.

Declension
Declension of mamuza
singular plural
nominative mamuza mamuze
genitive mamuze mamuza
dative mamuzi mamuzama
accusative mamuzu mamuze
vocative mamuzo mamuze
locative mamuzi mamuzama
instrumental mamuzom mamuzama

References
  • “mamuza” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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