موسم

Arabic

Root
و س م (w s m)
12 terms

Etymology

From a root meaning "to become suitable, fitting," compare Hebrew מזומן (“currency”), סיוון (“Sivan”), Arabic وسم (“to mark”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maw.sim/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /muː.sim/, /maw.sim/

Noun

مَوْسِم • (mawsim) m (plural مَوَاسِم (mawāsim))

1. season
2. festive season (especially, the hajj festival)
3. festival, holiday
4. fair
5. fixed date, deadline
6. harvest

Declension

Declension of noun مَوْسِم (mawsim)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَوْسِم mawsim	الْمَوْسِم al-mawsim	مَوْسِم mawsim
nominative	مَوْسِمٌ mawsimun	الْمَوْسِمُ al-mawsimu	مَوْسِمُ mawsimu
accusative	مَوْسِمًا mawsiman	الْمَوْسِمَ al-mawsima	مَوْسِمَ mawsima
genitive	مَوْسِمٍ mawsimin	الْمَوْسِمِ al-mawsimi	مَوْسِمِ mawsimi
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَوْسِمَيْن mawsimayn	الْمَوْسِمَيْن al-mawsimayn	مَوْسِمَيْ mawsimay
nominative	مَوْسِمَانِ mawsimāni	الْمَوْسِمَانِ al-mawsimāni	مَوْسِمَا mawsimā
accusative	مَوْسِمَيْنِ mawsimayni	الْمَوْسِمَيْنِ al-mawsimayni	مَوْسِمَيْ mawsimay
genitive	مَوْسِمَيْنِ mawsimayni	الْمَوْسِمَيْنِ al-mawsimayni	مَوْسِمَيْ mawsimay
plural	basic broken plural diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَوَاسِم mawāsim	الْمَوَاسِم al-mawāsim	مَوَاسِم mawāsim
nominative	مَوَاسِمُ mawāsimu	الْمَوَاسِمُ al-mawāsimu	مَوَاسِمُ mawāsimu
accusative	مَوَاسِمَ mawāsima	الْمَوَاسِمَ al-mawāsima	مَوَاسِمَ mawāsima
genitive	مَوَاسِمَ mawāsima	الْمَوَاسِمِ al-mawāsimi	مَوَاسِمِ mawāsimi

Descendants

• → Burmese: မုတ်သုံလေ (mutsumle)
• → Brunei Malay: musim
• → Classical Persian: مَوْسِم (mawsim) (see there for further descendants)
• → Crimean Tatar: mevsim
• → Malay: musim
  • Indonesian: musim
  • → Iban: musin
  • → Tagalog: musim
  • → Tausug: musim
• → Portuguese: monção (see there for further descendants)
• → Swahili: msimu
• → Ottoman Turkish: مَوْسِم (mevsim)
  • → Turkish: mevsim
• → Turkmen: möwsüm

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /maw.ˈsim/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäw.sɪ́m]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäw.sɪ́m]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäw.sɪ́m]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäw.sím]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mow.sém]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäw.sím]

• Rhymes: -im

Readings
Classical reading?	mawsim
Dari reading?	mawsim
Iranian reading?	mowsem
Tajik reading?	mavsim

Noun

موسم • (mawsim / mowsem) (plural ممواسم (mawāsim / mavâsem), Tajik spelling мавсим)

1. season

   Synonym: فصل (fasl)

2. time

Descendants

• Tajik: мавсим (mavsim)
• → Assamese: মৌচুমী (mousumi)
• → Bengali: মৌসুম (mōuśum), মৌসম (mōuśom), মউসম (mouśom), মউসুম (mouśum), মরশুম (morśum)
• → Bihari: मौसम (mausam)
• → Chagatai: مَوْسِم (mwsm /⁠mäwsim⁠/)
  • Uyghur: مەۋسۇم (mewsum), مەۋسۈم (mewsüm)
  • Uzbek: mavsum
• → Gujarati: મોસમ (mosam)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मौसम (mausam), मौसिम (mausim)

  • → Bhojpuri:

    Devanagari script: मौसम (mausam)

    Kaithi script: 𑂧𑂸𑂮𑂧 (mausam)

  • → Nepali: मौसम (mausam)

  Urdu: مَوسَم (mausam)

  • → Ushojo: موسم (mōsam)

• → Kashmiri:

  Arabic script: موٗسِم (mūsim)

  Devanagari script: मूसिम (mūsim)

  Sharada script: 𑆩𑆷𑆱𑆴𑆩𑇀 (mūsim)

• → Kazakh: маусым (mausym, “June”)
• → Marathi: मोसम (mosam)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮੌਸਮ (mausam)

  Shahmukhi script: مَوسِم (mausim)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَوْسِم (mawsim), from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɔː.səm/, /mɔː.sɪm/
• Rhymes: -əm
• Hyphenation: مَو‧سَم

Noun

مَوسَم or مَوسِم • (mausam or mausim) m (formal plural مَوَاسِم (mavāsim), Hindi spelling मौसम or मौसिम)

1. weather
2. season
3. time

   Synonyms: سَماں (samā̃), زَمانَہ (zamāna), وَقْت (vaqt)

4. climate

Declension

Declension of موسم

	singular	plural
direct	مَوسَم (mausam)	مَوسَم (mausam)
oblique	مَوسَم (mausam)	مَوسَموں (mausamõ)
vocative	مَوسَم (mausam)	مَوسَمو (mausamo)

Synonyms

• رت (rut)

Descendants

• → Ushojo: موسم (mōsam)

Further reading

• “موسم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “موسم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “موسم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu مَوسَم (mausam), from Classical Persian مَوْسِم (mawsim), from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim).

Noun

موسم (mōsam)

1. weather