mousson
French edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
mousson f (plural moussons)
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: muson
Further reading edit
- “mousson”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.