Noun: murga
Gender: f
Hyphenation: mur‧ga
| Singular f | murga |
| Plural f | murgas |
Sample Sentences
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las murgas no me dejaron dormir en toda la noche (the bands didn't let me sleep the entire night) [1875, Benito Pérez Galdós, “chapter 6”, in Los Cien Mil Hijos de San Luis:]
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Una murga tocaba en un tablado (A band was playing on stage) [1909, Felipe Trigo, En la Carrera:]
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—Vaya murga que nos está pegando la pava esta, macho. Necesito un cigarro (That chick is such a drag, dude. I need a ciggy.) [2022, Diego de Celis, Operación Helium:]
Nouns inflected like murga
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably from an earlier form *musga, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “of a Muse”). Compare the borrowed doublet música. See: Latin Nouns '
mūsica', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μουσική'.
Verbs referencing "murga"
Catalan Nouns
murga.
Translations