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語源

Borrowed from Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɒnˈsuːn/
• (General American) IPA: /mɑnˈsuːn/
• (India) IPA: /ˈmɔːn.suːn/, (father-bother merger) /ˈmɑːn.suːn/
• 韻: -uːn

名詞

monsoon (plural monsoons)

1. Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season.
2. Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
   • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:

     Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

3. The rains themselves.
4. Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.
5. (figurative) Any heavy rainstorm.

派生語

派生した語

• → German: Monsun
  • → Czech: monzun
  • → Danish: monsun
  • → Swedish: monsun
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मानसून (mānsūn), मॉनसून (mŏnsūn), मोनसून (monsūn)

  Urdu: مَون سُون (maun sūn)

• → Macedonian: монсун (monsun)
• → Malay: monsun
  • Indonesian: monsun, muson
• → Norwegian: (or borrowed directly from Portuguese) monsun

  Norwegian Bokmål: monsun

  Norwegian Nynorsk: monsun

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮੌਨਸੂਨ (maunsūn), ਮਾਨਸੂਨ (mānsūn)

  Shahmukhi script: مَون سُون (maun sūn)

• → Polish: monsun
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: mònsūn

  Cyrillic script: мо̀нсӯн

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