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'.
köken: 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”).