English to afrikaans meaning of

monsoon

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "monsoon" verwys na 'n seisoenale verskuiwing in die heersende winde van 'n streek, wat lei tot 'n tydperk van swaar reënval. Monsoon kom tipies voor in tropiese en subtropiese streke, en word gekenmerk deur 'n duidelike nat seisoen en droë seisoen. Die term "moesson" is afgelei van die Arabiese woord "mausim," wat "seisoen" of "tyd" beteken.

Sentence Examples

  1. Probably on the whole state Josie had told me how summers could often be cloudy and turbulent there, with spectacular monsoon thunderstorms, but those days were still months off.
  2. Blood coursed through her veins like the waters of the Nile in monsoon season.
  3. Supposedly, Arizona would start to get monsoon storms starting at the end of June and that would help to cool things down a bit, but in the meantime, we all had to suffer.
  4. Our school was closed for five weeks during my third-grade year for a monsoon that never came.
  5. But he, being a man well experienced in the navigation of those seas, bid us all prepare against a storm, which accordingly happened on the day following for a southern wind, called the southern monsoon, began to set in.
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