monsoon
monsoon
noun
monsoonal
adjective
语源
noun
- a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia, blowing from the south-west between May and September and bringing rain (the wet monsoon), or from the north-east between October and April (the dry monsoon)
季风
■the rainy season accompanying the wet monsoon
雨季
monsoonal
adjective
语源
- late 16th cent.: from Portuguese monção, from Arabic mawsim 'season', from wasama 'to mark, brand'
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