mousson
French
Etymology
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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