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Arabic in the Languages of Muslim Peoples

مَوْسِم

the time each year when pilgrims gather; a fair

mawsim

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Time and direction
«المَوْسِم… وهو الوقتُ الذي يجتمع فيه الحاجُّ كلَّ سنةٍ كأنه وُسِم بذلك الوَسْم، وهو مَفْعِلٌ منه اسمٌ للزمان»
What changed on the wayThe season of pilgrimage and fairs became, for Indian Ocean sailors, the name of the wind that blows at a fixed time of year and carries their ships – the source, through Portuguese, of English monsoon.

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The road to English, as the American Heritage Dictionary and Wiktionary give it: Portuguese monção, then Dutch, from Arabic mawsim.

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