plum rains

Etymology
From, either:


 * a ( + ), from, a poetic reference to the season when plums grow or ripen;
 * a, from +  + ; or
 * a (see, for example, the 1894 and 1991 quotations), from  +.

Noun

 * 1) Also occasionally in the  form plum rain: the East Asian rainy season from early summer to midsummer in the fourth and fifth lunar months (early June to early or mid-July); also, the rain which falls during this season.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 梅雨
 * Hakka: 梅雨
 * Hokkien: 芒種雨,, 黃酸雨
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 梅雨, 黃梅雨
 * Finnish: Itä-Aasian sadekausi
 * German: Baiu, Tsuyu
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian:
 * Sakizaya: benel (梅雨)