mousson

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mousson

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Borrowed from Portuguese monção, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”). The word was borrowed at least three times, from Dutch and Spanish as well as directly from Portuguese.

• IPA^(key): /mu.sɔ̃/

mousson f (plural moussons)

1. monsoon (extremely strong tropical wind)
2. monsoon (tropical rainy season)

• → Turkish: muson

• “mousson”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.