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) IPA(key): /mɑːn.suːn/, [mä̃ːn.sũːn]

Noun

मानसून • (mānsūn) m (Urdu spelling مَون سُون)

  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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