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”).
cotton (plant, textile fiber) · cotton wool · ellipsis of algodón de azúcar
çekim: çoğul algodones
köken: Etymology tree Aramaic כִיתָנָא /כִיתָאנָא (kittānā)bor. Classical Syriac ܟܶܬܳܢܳܐ (kettānā)bor. Arabic قُطْن (quṭn) Andalusian Arabic قطن (quṭun)bor. Old Spanish algodon Spanish algodón Inherited from Old Spanish algodon, from Andalusian Arabic قطن (quṭun), from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun).
aile: algodón de azúcar, algodonal, algodoncillo, algodonero, algodonoso, árbol del algodón, bastoncillo de algodón, el algodón no engaña, entre algodones, molino de algodón
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: Borrowed from Aramaic כִיתָנָא / כִיתָאנָא (kittānā) and its Classical Syriac equivalent ܟܶܬܳܢܳܐ (kettānā), both meaning “flax; linen," from which also Arabic كَتّان (kattān, “flax”). The same Aramaic root also gives rise to the apparel-name Aramaic כִּיתּוּנָא (kittōnā) and the Syriac forms ܟܝܬܘܢܐ (kettōnā), and ܟܘܬܝܢܐ (kuttīnā, kottīnā, “tunic”), especially the Classical Syriac byform ܟܘܬܘܢܐ…
cotton (a soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium) · cotton wool · cotton (a plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of cotton fibre)
çekim: çoğul paxtalar · tamlayan paxtaning
köken: Inherited from Chagatai پخته (pxth /päxtä/), from Classical Persian پَخْتَه (paxta, “cotton”).
köken: From Ancient Greek βαμβάκιον (bambákion), from Ancient Greek βάμβαξ (bámbax); compare also Latin bombacium, Italian bombagio, bambagia, Middle Persian pmbk'.
cotton (the textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant)
çekim: çoğul bavlny · tamlayan bavlny
köken: Inherited from Old Czech bavlna, borrowed from Middle High German boumwolle, whence German Baumwolle. The word is a partial calque, the second part having been assimilated to vlna (“wool”).
köken: Probably from a Late Latin bombax or *bombacum, ultimately from Ancient Greek βάμβαξ (bámbax). Compare Medieval Latin bombacium (Byzantine Greek βαμβάκιον (vamvákion)), from Ancient Greek βάμβαξ (bámbax), Italian bambagia, Venetan bombàxo, bombàs, also Greek βαμβάκι (vamváki), μπαμπάκι (bampáki), Serbo-Croatian bumbak, pamuk, Bulgarian бу́бак (búbak), Albanian pambuk, Turkish pamuk.
köken: Usually considered to be from Proto-Common Turkic *yapgut (“stuffing, matted mass of hair or wool”) through a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), cognate with gyapjú (“wool”). However Benkő states the word is isolated in Karakhanid.
köken: Borrowed from Arabic قُطْن (quṭn, “cotton”), with the spelling being adjusted to Aramaic כִּתָּנָא (kitaná, “flax, linen”) and Hebrew כֻּתֹּנֶת (kutónet, “tunic”).
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάρπασος (kárpasos, “cotton”), from Biblical Hebrew כַּרְפַּס (karpás, “fabric of cotton”), from Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, “cotton”), though Mediterranean and Anatolic sources have also been suggested. The same Sanskrit word has resulted in gossypium (“cotton”).
aile: carbaseus
… vocat iam carbasus aurās, / puppibus et laetī nautae imposuēre corōnās.
köken: From Low German bomwulle. Compare German Baumwolle, from Baum (“tree”) + Wolle (“wool”). Second component has been adapted as uld, making this a partial calque.