मानसून

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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

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /mɑːn.suːn/, [mä̃ːn.sũːn]

Noun edit

मानसून (mānsūnm (Urdu spelling مانسون)

  1. monsoon
    Synonym: चौमासा (caumāsā)

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 Houghton Mifflin
  2. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “موسم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.