musasá

• musasáu, musasawa

From mu- + sasá.

• IPA^(key): /musaˈsa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: mu‧sa‧sá

musasá

1. (transitive) to pass; to transfer (to move from one place to another)

   Remusasá nhaã kisé ixé arã. ― Pass me that knife.

2. (transitive) to spread; to apply (to rub evenly on a surface)

   Synonym: sasá

   • 2015, Hermes Plácido, “Makiritários”, in Maria Sílvia Cintra Martins, editor, Leetra Indígena‎^[1], volume 1, number 17, São Carlos: UFSCar, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 December 2024, page 53; text written in São Gabriel da Cachoeira:

     — Pemusasá kuri aé peruapé — uyem paá. / Takitika taruapé, takitika tayuwa resé.

     “You will spread it [priprioca] on your faces”, he said. They rubbed it on their faces, they rubbed it on their arms.

3. (transitive) to strain (to separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander)

   Synonym: muáu

4. (transitive) to pass (to be over)
5. (transitive) to cure

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mupusanga

6. (transitive, by extension) to translate (to change from one language to another) [with suí ‘from a language’ and kití ‘to a language’]
   • 2016, Marcel Twardowsky Avila, “MURAKÍ MUATUKASAWA [Abstract]”, in Estudo e prática da tradução da obra infantil A terra dos meninos pelados, de Graciliano Ramos, do português para o nheengatu [Study and practice of the translation of the children’s book A terra dos meninos pelados, by Graciliano Ramos, from Portuguese to Nheengatu] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 6:

     Kwá se murakí resé amusasá yepé parepa taína-itá kitiwara, sera waá A terra dos meninos pelados, Graciliano Ramos yara waá, kariwa nheenga suí nheengatú kití […]

     [original: O estudo aqui apresentado consiste na tradução do livro infantil A terra dos meninos pelados, de Graciliano Ramos, do português para o nheengatu […]]

     On this work of mine I translated a children's book called A terra dos meninos pelados, of Graciliano Ramos, from Portuguese to Nheengatu.

• Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “musasá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 541