köken: Borrowed from English monsoon, from Portuguese monção, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim). Attested since the 17th century, in common use since the 19th.
köken: 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.
The East Asian rainy season between spring and summer
eş: 구우, 임우
köken: First attested in the Sinjeung yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576, as Middle Korean 댱마 (Yale: tyangma), a compound of 댱(長) (tyang, “long, lengthy”, a Sino-Korean morpheme) + 맣 (mah, “monsoon season”). The Sino-Korean element may have been added for disambiguation. The Middle Korean 맣 (Yale: mah, “monsoon season”) does not survive in modern Korean, but is still found as the first element of 마파람 (maparam,…
köken: Borrowed from French mousson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”). Compare Russian муссо́н (mussón).
köken: Borrowed from English monsoon, from Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”). Doublet of मौसम (mausam).
köken: Inherited from Old Gujarati चउमासउं (caümāsaüṃ), from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀘𑀤𑀼𑀫𑀸𑀲 (*cadumāsa), from Sanskrit चतुर्मास (caturmāsa), literally, “four months” as the monsoon season takes place during Ashadha (અસાડ), Shraavana (સાવણ), Bhadrapada (ભાદરવો), and Ashwin (આસો) roughly equivalent to June through September. Doublet of ચતુર્માસ (caturmās). Cognate with Sindhi چَوْماسو /चौमासो (caumāso).
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