different between cot vs manji

Translingual

Symbol

cot

1. (trigonometry) cotangent

Usage notes

The symbol cot is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard, which explicitly deprecates the older symbol ctg.

Synonyms

• cotan
• cotg
• ctg
• ctn (obsolete)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, Boston) IPA^(key): /k?t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [k???(t)]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [k??t], [k???]
  • (Boston) IPA^(key): [k???t?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [k??t?]
  • (Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): [k?at?]
• Homophones: caught (accents with cot–caught merger), court (non-rhotic accents with cot–caught merger and horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (kh??), from Sauraseni Prakrit ???????????????????? (kha???), from Sanskrit ????? (kha?v?, “bedstead”).

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

   Synonym: camp bed

2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.

   Synonym: crib

3. (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kut?, *kut? (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German k?z (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan ????????????????? (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm

   • 1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem).

     Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban

2. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.

   Synonym: cote

Derived terms

Related terms

• coscet
• cosset
• cote
• cotter

Translations

Etymology 3

From Irish cot, coit (“small boat”), from Proto-Celtic *quontio, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh?s (“path, road”), related to Gaulish and Latin ponto. Compare the first element of catboat, which could be a borrowing.

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Etymology 4

From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.

Alternative forms

• cote (dialectal)

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.

   a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)

   a cot for a sore finger

References

Anagrams

• CTO, OCT, OTC, Oct, Oct., TCO, TOC, oct, oct-

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cotu

Etymology

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

Noun

cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)

1. elbow

Noun

cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)

1. an old measure, unit of length

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

cot (feminine cota, masculine plural cots, feminine plural cotes)

1. bowed, towards the ground

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian ???? (joft).

Noun

cot ?

1. pair

Old English

Alternative forms

• cott

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kut?, *kutan (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota.

However, compare Dutch and English hut, as well as Old Norse kot, Middle High German k?z (“execution pit”)), Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta, Avestan ????????????????? (kata, “chamber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot/

Noun

cot n (nominative plural cotu)

1. cottage

Declension

Derived terms

• cote
• cotsæta

Descendants

• English: cot

References

Picard

Etymology

From Latin cattus.

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. cat

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin cubitum. Compare Spanish codo. Doublet of the neological borrowing cubitus.

Noun

cot n (plural coate)

1. elbow

Noun

cot n (plural coturi)

1. corner

Noun

cot m (plural co?i)

1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

Derived terms

• coti
• cot?ri

Romansch

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) rooster

Welsh

Alternative forms

• (North Wales) côt

Etymology

From English coat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/

Noun

cot f (plural cotiau)

1. (South Wales) coat

Derived terms

• cot law

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “cot”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi ????? (m?ñjh?, “boatman, sailor”).

Alternative forms

• mangee, manjee

Noun

manji (plural manjis)

1. (obsolete, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan) A captain or skipper of a boat. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 361:

     I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […] .

Etymology 2

From a form of Punjabi ???? (mañj?, “raised bed”). The Sikh sense is based on their use as seats of authority.

Noun

manji (plural manjis)

1. A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.
   • 1990, W. H. McLeod, Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism, page 152:

     Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji.

   • 2005, W. Owen Cole, Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism: Sikh Religion and Philosophy:

     The significance of a manji lies in its use as the seat of a person in authority, other people sitting on the ground.

   • 2011, Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Highway on my Plate: The indian guide to roadside eating, Random House India (?ISBN):

     There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal!

   • 2015, Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers:

     Roop doesn't want to sleep on a mat on the floor; she wants to sleep with Lajo Bhua on a manji, wants Lajo Bhua to tell her stories till she falls asleep.

2. (Sikhism) A Sikh religious administrative unit.
   • 1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155:

     In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis.

Derived terms

• manji sahib/Manji Sahib

Etymology 3

From Japanese ? (manji).

Noun

manji (plural manjis)

1. A left-facing Japanese swastika.

Embu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màjíj??.

Noun

manji

1. water

References

• Ciarunji Chesaina, Oral Literature of the Embu and Mbeere (1997, ?ISBN

Japanese

Romanization

manji

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

manji (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. comparative degree of malen