cotton wool

See also: cottonwool and cotton-wool

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒtən wʊl/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

cotton wool (usually uncountable, plural cotton wools)

1. (US) Raw fibers of cotton before being processed.

   Hypernym: wool

   Coordinate term: wool

2. (UK) Soft, absorbent cotton for medical or cosmetic use, protective padding, etc.

   Hypernym: wool

   Coordinate term: cotton swab

Derived terms

• cotton wool ball
• cotton wool bud
• cotton-wooly
• wrap in cotton wool

Translations

raw fibers of cotton

• Bashkir: мамыҡ (mamıq)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原棉 (zh)

• Dutch: katoenvezels n pl
• Esperanto: vato
• Finnish: raakapuuvilla
• German: Baumwolle (de) f
• Greek: βαμβάκι (el) n (vamváki)
• Italian: cotone (it) m, bambagia (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: vate f
• Ottoman Turkish: پاموق (pamuk), كرسف (kırsef)
• Polish: wata (pl) f
• Russian: хло́пок-сыре́ц m (xlópok-syréc)
• Salar: mamuq
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вата f

  Roman: vata (sh) f

• Swedish: råbomull c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: pamuk (tr)

absorbent cotton

• Armenian: բամբակ (hy) (bambak)
• Bashkir: мамыҡ (mamıq)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: cotó fluix (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脫脂棉 / 脱脂棉 (zh) (tuōzhīmián), 藥棉 / 药棉 (zh) (yàomián), 棉花球, 化妝棉 / 化妆棉

• Czech: vata (cs) f
• Danish: vat n
• Dutch: watten (nl) n pl, katoenwatten n pl
• Esperanto: absorba vato
• Faroese: vatt n
• Finnish: pumpuli (fi), vanu (fi)
• French: ouate (fr) f, coton hydrophile (fr) m
• Galician: algodón (gl) m
• German: Verbandwatte f
• Greek: βαμβάκι (el) n (vamváki)
• Hebrew: צמר גפן (he) m (tsémer géfen)
• Italian: ovatta (it) f, cotone idrofilo m, bambagia (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: wūru kātene
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: вате (vate)

• Norman: ouadinne f
• Polish: wata (pl) f
• Portuguese: algodão (pt) m
• Russian: ва́та (ru) f (váta)
• Scottish Gaelic: clòimh-chotain f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вата f

  Roman: vata (sh) f

• Sicilian: cuttuni spusu m
• Slovak: vata f
• Swedish: bomull (sv) c, bomullsvadd c, vadd (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: вата (uk) f (vata)
• Venetan: bombaxo, bonbàs

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} vato
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} flocas cadáis m, ^{(please verify)} olann chadáis f
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} вата (uk) f (vata)