मानसून

Hindi

Etymology

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

Noun

मानसून • (mānsūn) m (Urdu spelling مانسون)

  1. monsoon
    Synonym: चौमासा (caumāsā)

Declension
Declension of मानसून (masc cons-stem)
singular plural
direct मानसून
mānsūn		 मानसून
mānsūn
oblique मानसून
mānsūn		 मानसूनों
mānsūnõ
vocative मानसून
mānsūn		 मानसूनो
mānsūno

References
  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.
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