mamuza

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

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

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.

• “mamuza”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025