mursă

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Latin mulsa, with Greek influence for the sound shift, or tied to Serbo-Croatian mrs (day of sweets). Another less likely etymology is from Latin morsa (“bite”).

Noun

mursă f (plural murse)

1. (regional) mead
2. (archaic) juice, must
3. (archaic) sweetness, sweet part of a thing, pulp of a fruit

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mursă	mursa		murse	mursele
genitive-dative	murse	mursei		murse	murselor
vocative	mursă, murso			murselor

Synonyms

• hidromel

See also

• mied
• must