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English word cotton comes from Egyptian Arabic قُطُن, Old French (842-ca. 1400) cotoun ((countable) a piece of cotton. (uncountable) cotton.)
قُطُن (Egyptian Arabic)
cotoun (Old French)
(countable) a piece of cotton. (uncountable) cotton.
cotone (Old Italian)
coton (Old French)
cotun (Anglo-Norman)
cotoun (Middle English)
cotton (English)
(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.. (textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant.. A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.. Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber. Made of cotton.