different between wool vs mohair

English

Etymology

From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-Germanic *wull? (cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Norwegian ull), from Proto-Indo-European *h?w??h?neh? (compare Welsh gwlân, Latin l?na, Lithuanian vìlna, Russian ?????? (vólos), Bulgarian ???? (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”)). Doublet of lana.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w?l/
• (General American) enPR: wo?ol, IPA^(key): /w?l/, [w???], [w??]
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

wool (usually uncountable, plural wools)

1. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
   • 2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692

     The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.

2. A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
3. Anything with a texture like that of wool.
   • 1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223

     The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation […]

4. A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
5. (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
6. (Britain, New Zealand) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
7. (Liverpudlian) Derogatory term for residents of the satellite towns outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.

Hyponyms

• (cloth or yarn): felt, tweed, worsted

Coordinate terms

• (hair of sheep): goathair, horsehair, qiviut

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (?ru)

Translations

See also

• wool on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Cornish

Noun

wool

1. Soft mutation of gool.

English

Etymology

Earlier mocayre, from Middle French mocayart and Italian mocaiardo, mocaiarro, both from Arabic ????????? (mu?ayyar, “choice”), past participle of ???????? (?ayyara, “to choose”). Form probably influenced by hair. Compare mockado, moire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??h??/

Noun

mohair (countable and uncountable, plural mohairs)

1. Yarn or fabric made from the hair of the angora goat, often as mixed with cotton or other materials.
2. The long, fine hair of the Angora goat.
3. An Angora goat.

Descendants

• ? French: moire (semi-learned), ? mohair
  • ? Italian: amoerro, amoerre, moerro, muerre (semi-learned), ? moire
• ? Italian: mohair
• ? Japanese: ??? (mohea)
• ? Portuguese: mohair
• ? Russian: ?????? (moxér)
• ? Spanish: mohair
• ? Chinese:
  • Mandarin: ???/??? (m?h?imáo)
  • Cantonese: ??? (maa⁵ hoi² mou⁴)

Translations

Anagrams

• Mahori, Moriah

French

Noun

mohair m (plural mohairs)

1. mohair

Italian

Etymology

From French mohair, itself a borrowing from English mohair, from Italian mocaiardo, mocaiarro, from Arabic ?????????? (mu?ayyar, “choice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo??r/

Noun

mohair m (uncountable)

1. mohair (fiber)

Related terms

• amoerro
• moire

References

• mohair in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Noun

mohair m (uncountable)

1. mohair (fine hair of the Angora goat)

Romanian

Etymology

From French mohair.

Noun

mohair n (plural mohairuri)

1. mohair

Declension

Spanish

Noun

mohair m (plural mohaires)

1. mohair