dry season

English

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Noun

dry season (plural dry seasons)

1. Any season in which little rain falls; used especially in the tropics where it alternates with the rainy season.

Antonyms

• rainy season

Translations

season

• Assamese: খৰালি (khorali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乾季 / 干季 (zh) (gānjì), 旱季 (zh) (hànjì)

• Danish: tørketid c
• Dutch: droge tijd m, droogseizoen n
• Finnish: kuiva kausi
• French: saison sèche (fr) f
• German: Trockenzeit (de) f
• Indonesian: kemarau (id), musim kemarau
• Italian: stagione secca f
• Japanese: 乾季 (ja) (かんき, kanki), 乾期 (ja) (かんき, kanki)
• Kankanaey: tiyagew
• Maori: kaupeka pakapaka
• Mwani: kirangazi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tørketid m or f

  Nynorsk: tørketid f

• Polish: pora sucha (pl) f
• Portuguese: estio (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਔੜ (pa) f (auṛa)
• Russian: сухо́й сезо́н m (suxój sezón), засу́шливый сезо́н m (zasúšlivyj sezón), сушь (ru) f (sušʹ)
• Sranan Tongo: dreiten
• Swedish: torrperiod (sv) c
• Thai: ฤดูแล้ง (th), หน้าแล้ง (th)
• Vietnamese: mùa khô
• Yoruba: ìgbà ẹ̀rùn
• ǃXóõ: (hot dry season) ǁgâa