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) monsoon (extremely strong tropical wind) 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