marsala

1. 1.

   dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily

   Broaderfortified wine

Other forms of marsala

plural

marsalas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about marsala

What does marsala mean?

marsala means "dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily".

How many syllables are in marsala?

marsala has 3 syllables: mar-sa-la. The stress falls on "sa". In IPA it is /mɑɹˈsɑlə/.

Is marsala a common word?

marsala is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.