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musa.

music

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmusɑ/[ˈmus̠ɑ̝]

  1. music

    informal
Where this word comes from

Clipping of musiikki (“music”) + -sa.

noun/ˈmusɑ/[ˈmus̠ɑ̝]

  1. (state of being) broken

    colloquial · idiomatic · informal
    olla musana

  2. rock, stone

    informal

  3. bump

    dialectal · informal
Where this word comes from

Perhaps from Swedish mos (“mash”) in the sense of "gravel", originally to mean "(state of being) broken". The sense "stone, rock" is found both in dialects and Helsinki slang.

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