Arabic in the Languages of Muslim Peoples
مَوْسِم
the time each year when pilgrims gather; a fair
mawsim
- Field
- Time and direction
«المَوْسِم… وهو الوقتُ الذي يجتمع فيه الحاجُّ كلَّ سنةٍ كأنه وُسِم بذلك الوَسْم، وهو مَفْعِلٌ منه اسمٌ للزمان»
The word in other languages
Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.
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Turkish mevsim on the card
a season of the year
Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)
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Persian موسم mowsem
time, season; the pilgrimage season and its fairs
Sources: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)
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Urdu موسم mausam on the card
a season
Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)
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Urdu موسم mausam single source
also the weather
Sources: Wiktionary (English edition)
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Indonesian musim on the card
a season, as in the rainy and the dry season
Sources: KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language; Wiktionary (English edition)
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Malay musim in Jawi script: موسيم on the card
a season; formerly, the monsoon wind
Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia; Wiktionary (English edition)
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Swahili msimu on the card
a season; first, the north-east monsoon (December to February); formerly musimu
Sources: Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1903); Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967); Wiktionary (English edition)
The road to English, as the American Heritage Dictionary and Wiktionary give it: Portuguese monção, then Dutch, from Arabic mawsim.
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Sources
- Ibn Manzur, Lisan al-Arab, vol. 12, p. 637
- Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com): mevsim
- Wiktionary (English edition): mevsim (Turkish)
- Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition: موسم
- Wiktionary (English edition): موسم (Persian)
- Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition: موسم
- Wiktionary (English edition): موسم (Urdu)
- KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language: musim
- Wiktionary (English edition): musim (Indonesian)
- Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia: musim
- Wiktionary (English edition): musim (Malay)
- Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1903): Musimu
- Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967): msimu
- Wiktionary (English edition): msimu (Swahili)
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: monsoon
- Wiktionary (English edition): monsoon (English)
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