"harmattan" meaning in All languages combined

See harmattan on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: harmattans [plural]
Etymology: From Twi Akan haramata or a related word (whence also Spanish harmatán). The ultimate origin is supposed by some to be an Arabic word, but which one is uncertain; حَرَام (ḥarām, “accursed thing”) has been suggested. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ak|haramata}} Akan haramata, {{cog|es|harmatán}} Spanish harmatán, {{cog|ar|-}} Arabic Head templates: {{en-noun}} harmattan (plural harmattans)
  1. A dry and dusty wind which blows from the Sahara over the Atlantic coast of West Africa in December, January and February, being a hot wind in some areas and a cold wind in others. Categories (topical): Wind
    Sense id: en-harmattan-en-noun-CkzxJzXM Disambiguation of Wind: 84 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 98 2
  2. A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows.
    Sense id: en-harmattan-en-noun-LihBH3ib

Noun [French]

Forms: harmattans [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} harmattan m (plural harmattans)
  1. harmattan Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-harmattan-fr-noun-nvsu0~Z2 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Italian]

Head templates: {{it-noun|m|#}} harmattan m (invariable)
  1. harmattan Tags: invariable, masculine Categories (topical): Wind
    Sense id: en-harmattan-it-noun-nvsu0~Z2 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for harmattan meaning in All languages combined (3.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ak",
        "3": "haramata"
      },
      "expansion": "Akan haramata",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "harmatán"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish harmatán",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Twi Akan haramata or a related word (whence also Spanish harmatán). The ultimate origin is supposed by some to be an Arabic word, but which one is uncertain; حَرَام (ḥarām, “accursed thing”) has been suggested.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "harmattans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "harmattan (plural harmattans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Wind",
          "orig": "en:Wind",
          "parents": [
            "Weather",
            "Atmosphere",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World",
          "text": "Storm-clouds stretched their arms across the sky; from the east, to all appearances, might come a fierce harmattan, or from the south might come the fierce hurricane.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A dry and dusty wind which blows from the Sahara over the Atlantic coast of West Africa in December, January and February, being a hot wind in some areas and a cold wind in others."
      ],
      "id": "en-harmattan-en-noun-CkzxJzXM"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows."
      ],
      "id": "en-harmattan-en-noun-LihBH3ib"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "harmattan"
  ],
  "word": "harmattan"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "harmattans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "harmattan m (plural harmattans)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "harmattan"
      ],
      "id": "en-harmattan-fr-noun-nvsu0~Z2",
      "links": [
        [
          "harmattan",
          "harmattan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "harmattan"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "#"
      },
      "expansion": "harmattan m (invariable)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "it",
          "name": "Wind",
          "orig": "it:Wind",
          "parents": [
            "Weather",
            "Atmosphere",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "harmattan"
      ],
      "id": "en-harmattan-it-noun-nvsu0~Z2",
      "links": [
        [
          "harmattan",
          "harmattan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "invariable",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "harmattan"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Akan",
    "Requests for pronunciation in English entries",
    "en:Wind"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ak",
        "3": "haramata"
      },
      "expansion": "Akan haramata",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "harmatán"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish harmatán",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Twi Akan haramata or a related word (whence also Spanish harmatán). The ultimate origin is supposed by some to be an Arabic word, but which one is uncertain; حَرَام (ḥarām, “accursed thing”) has been suggested.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "harmattans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "harmattan (plural harmattans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World",
          "text": "Storm-clouds stretched their arms across the sky; from the east, to all appearances, might come a fierce harmattan, or from the south might come the fierce hurricane.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A dry and dusty wind which blows from the Sahara over the Atlantic coast of West Africa in December, January and February, being a hot wind in some areas and a cold wind in others."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "harmattan"
  ],
  "word": "harmattan"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "harmattans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "harmattan m (plural harmattans)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French masculine nouns",
        "French nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "harmattan"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "harmattan",
          "harmattan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "harmattan"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "#"
      },
      "expansion": "harmattan m (invariable)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian countable nouns",
        "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Italian indeclinable nouns",
        "Italian lemmas",
        "Italian masculine nouns",
        "Italian nouns",
        "it:Wind"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "harmattan"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "harmattan",
          "harmattan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "invariable",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "harmattan"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.