cotton (plant) · cotton (thread or fabric made from said plant)
çekim: çoğul Baumwollen · tamlayan Baumwollen
eş: Kattun
köken: From Middle High German boumwolle, from Late Old High German boumwolla. By surface analysis, Baum (“tree”) + Wolle (“wool”). Perhaps based on Herodotus’ description of wool-bearing trees in India; compare Ancient Greek ἐριόξυλον (erióxulon, “cotton”, literally “wood/tree-wool”) and Latin linum xylinum (“cotton”, literally “wood/tree-flax”).
köken: From Medieval Latin bombacium, Byzantine Greek βαμβάκιον (bambákion), from either Ancient Greek βάμβαξ (bámbax, “cotton”) or Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silk-worm”), whose ultimate origin is unknown. Compare Greek βαμβάκι (vamváki), Venetan bonbaxo, Middle Persian pmbk' (pambag).
köken: From Ancient Greek βαμβάκιον (bambákion), from Ancient Greek βάμβαξ (bámbax); compare also Latin bombacium, Italian bombagio, bambagia, Middle Persian pmbk'.
Borrowed from French ouate and German Watte. Compare Polish wata (“cotton wool”), Russian вата (vata, “cotton wool, glass wool, drugstore cotton”), Italian ovatta (“cotton wool, wadding”), English wad (“amorphous mass”).