different between cotton vs bamboo

English

Etymology 1

Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, Old French coton, from (Genoese) Old Italian cotone, from Arabic ?????? (qu?un), of uncertain origin. There is no apparent semantic link between the Arabic word and the root ? ? ?? (q-?-n), leading to suggestions that it is a corruption of another word, such as ??????? (katt?n, “flax”) or (more distant phonologically) ???????? (jafna, “vine”). Cognate to Dutch katoen, German Kattun, Italian cotone, Spanish algodón, and Portuguese algodão.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?t.n?/, [?k??.n?]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?t.n?/
• Rhymes: -?t?n
• Hyphenation: cot?ton

Noun

cotton (usually uncountable, plural cottons)

1. Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
2. Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
3. Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.
4. (textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
5. (countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

cotton (not comparable)

1. Made of cotton.

Translations

Verb

cotton (third-person singular simple present cottons, present participle cottoning, simple past and past participle cottoned)

1. (transitive) To provide with cotton.
   1. To supply with a cotton wick.
   2. To fill with a wad of cotton.
   3. (horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
   4. To cover walls with fabric.
   5. (tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
2. To make or become cotton-like
   1. To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
   2. To develop a porous, cottony texture.
   3. To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
   4. To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
3. To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
4. To rub or burnish with cotton.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cotton”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Duschak, Moritz (1870) Die Botanik des Talmud (in German), Pest: I. Neuer, pages 7–10
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 42
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen?^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 92
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden?^[3] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 235 seqq., for Arabic Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden?^[4] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 241–242.

Etymology 2

1560s, either from Welsh cydun, cytun (“agree, coincide”) (cyduno, cytuno), from cyd, cyt + un (“one”), literally “to be at one with”, or by metaphor with the textile, as cotton blended well with other textiles, notably wool in hat-making.

Verb

cotton (third-person singular simple present cottons, present participle cottoning, simple past and past participle cottoned)

1. To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

Usage notes

Generally used with prepositions on, to; see cotton on, cotton to.

Derived terms

• cotton on
• cotton to

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cotton”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Take Our Word For It: Issue 178, page 2
• Palmer, Abram Smythe (1882) Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, G. Bell and Sons, page 76

Middle English

Noun

cotton

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of coton

English

Alternative forms

• bambu (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ???? (bambu). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæm?bu/

Noun

bamboo (countable and uncountable, plural bamboos)

1. A fast-growing grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
2. (uncountable) The wood of the bamboo plant as a material for building, furniture, etc.
3. (countable) A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used for corporal punishment.
4. (slang) A didgeridoo.
5. (slang) A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: bambu
• ? Finnish: bambu
• ? Greek: ??????? (bampoú)
• ? Guugu Yimidhirr: bambu
• ? Russian: ??????? (bambúk) (or Dutch bamboe or French bambou) (see there for further descendants)
• ? Welsh: bamb?

Translations

Adjective

bamboo (not comparable)

1. Made of the wood of the bamboo.

Translations

Verb

bamboo (third-person singular simple present bamboos, present participle bambooing, simple past and past participle bambooed)

1. (transitive) To flog with a bamboo cane.
   • 1880, Herbert Giles (translator), Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., Vol. II, p. 18, footnote, [1]

     […] the beadle is punished by fine, and sometimes bambooed, if robberies are too frequent within his jurisdiction, or if he fails to secure the person of any malefactor particularly wanted by his superior officers.

2. (transitive) To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
   • 1994, Penny Swift, The Complete Book of Paint Techniques, New Holland, p. 67, [2]

     The craze for bambooing furniture and accessories was one of many popular paint techniques in the 18th century and early Victorian era.

3. (India, slang) To penetrate sexually.
   • 2006, Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games, Penguin, 2008, [3]

     If you're just a girl from Lucknow, with no fluid cash, you'll be just one more among thousands going from producer to producer by auto-rickshaw, and every photographer who agrees to take a picture for your portfolio will want to introduce you to his bed upstairs in the loft. And what you'll get out of all this in the end is a lot of bambooing and maybe a dance or two in his videos.

   • 2013, Nandini Bhattacharya, Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject, London: Routledge, Chapter 5, [4]

     One scene of attachment and intimacy shows Vijay careening into their shared apartment dead drunk and insulting a praying Ajay for his devotion to the household god, Hanuman […] , saying that instead of being rescued Ajay will be "bamboo-ed," a popular slang for anal penetration.

Gooniyandi

Noun

bamboo

1. didgeridoo

Mandinka

Noun

bamboo

1. crocodile