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From Arabic مَوْسِم ‎(mawsim, season), from وَسَمَ ‎(wasama, to mark, to brand), through Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson. [1][2]



monsoon ‎(plural monsoons)

  3. The rains themselves.
  4. Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.



  1. ^ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 Houghton Mifflin
  2. ^ A Dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English Platts.