mousson
French
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu.sɔ̃/
Noun
mousson f (plural moussons)
Descendants
- → Turkish: muson
Further reading
- “mousson”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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