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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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