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)

1. monsoon (extremely strong tropical wind)
2. monsoon (tropical rainy season)

Descendants

• → Dutch: moesson
  • → Indonesian: muson, monsun
• → Romanian: muson
• → Turkish: muson

Further reading

• “mousson”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012