trade wind

Etymology
, because of their consistent linear direction. Associations with transatlantic trade are a later.

Noun

 * 1) A steady wind that blows from east to west above and below the equator.

Translations

 * Catalan: vents alisis, alisis
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: passat, passatvind
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, vent alizé
 * German: Passat, Passatwind
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, , פָּסָטִים
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: trádghaoth
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: өкпе жел
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: passat, passatvind
 * Nynorsk: passat, passatvind
 * Persian: باد بازرگانی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, aliseu, alísio
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: vientos alisios