mousson
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
editNoun
editmousson 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.