मानसून
Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English monsoon, from Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”). [1][2] Doublet of मौसम (mausam).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
मानसून • (mānsūn) m (Urdu spelling مانسون)
Declension edit
Declension of मानसून (masc cons-stem)
References edit
- ^ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 Houghton Mifflin
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “موسم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.