муссон
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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from French mousson, from Portuguese monção, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”).
Pronunciation
Noun
муссо́н • (mussón) m inan (genitive муссо́на, nominative plural муссо́ны, genitive plural муссо́нов, relational adjective муссо́нный)
- (meteorology) monsoon (any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season)
- Antonym: антимуссо́н (antimussón)
- Hypernym: ве́тер (véter)
Declension
Declension of муссо́н (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
Further reading
- муссон in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru