monsoon
英 [mɒn'suːn]
美 [,mɑn'sun]
- n. モンスーン; (インドなどの)雨季; モンスーン.
語源
monsoon モンスーン、雨季アラビア語の「mawsim」(時期、季節)、「ma-」(指示接頭辞)、「wasama」(印、しるし)から。
英語の語源
- monsoon (n.)
- 1580s, "trade wind of the Indian Ocean," from Dutch monssoen, from Portuguese mon?ao, from Arabic mawsim "time of year, appropriate season" (for a voyage, pilgrimage, etc.), from wasama "he marked." When it blows from the southwest (April through October) it brings heavy rain, hence "heavy episode of rainfall during the rainy season" (1747).
例文
- 1. The monsoon rains started early this year.
- 今年の雨季の降雨開始は早い。
- 2.The south-west monsoon sets in during April.
- 南西モンスーン4月到来.
- 3.Travelling is much more difficult during the monsoon .
- 雨季の外出はめったにありません。
- 4.The monsoon has now covered almost all of the agriculturally important north-west of India.
- 雨季は現在、インド北西部のすべての重要な農業地帯をほぼ覆っている。
- 5.The facts of monsoon climate have been presented in a number of texts and atlases.
- モンスーン気候のいくつかの事実は、いくつかの教科書や気候図集で紹介されている。
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