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mamuza

//mǎmuza//
Serbo-Croatiannoun

Definitions

  1. 1.
    spur
    • 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.

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Etymology

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

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