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monsoon
noun
Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season.
Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
The rains themselves.
Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.
Translations:
Dutch: moesson
French: mousson
(fr)
f
German: Monsun
(de)
m
Etymology:
From Arabic (
ARchar, ÙÙÙ
) (
mausim
, season) < (
ARchar, ÙÙ
) (
wísama
, to mark, to brand), through Portuguese and Dutch. <ref>
http://www.bartleby.com/61/21/M0402100.html
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 Houghton Mifflin</ref><ref>
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.7:1:1316.platts
A Dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English Platts.</ref>
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