cotton
/ˈkɒt(ə)n/·코튼·noun
a soft white fiber from the cotton plant
ArabicCEFR A2
Root
Arabic 'qutn' (cotton)
Arabic qutn → Old Spanish coton → Old French coton → English cotton (14th c.)
In a word
Arabic qutn = 'cotton'. Like sugar, the word entered Europe through medieval Arab trade. A family of words brought by Arab merchants across the medieval Mediterranean — cotton (qutn), sugar (sukkar), coffee (qahwa), algebra (al-jabr), algorithm (from the name al-Khwārizmī). On the label of the cotton shirt you are wearing, a word from a medieval Arab merchant is printed as-is.
Examples
This shirt is 100% cotton.
Cotton is grown in warm regions.
She wiped the wound with cotton.
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