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 (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024