Pausa

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See Pausha for the Hindu month. Pausa is also the Italian name for a rest in music. Pausa, Saxony is a town in Germany. Păuşa is the name of three villages in Romania.

Pausa (Latin for "break") in linguistics refers to the end of an utterance. Some sound laws specifically operate in pausa only, i.e. certain phonemes are pronounced differently at the end of a word, when no other word follows.

In both Classical Arabic and Literary Arabic pausa affects grammatical case endings, which are normally not pronounced in this case.