cotton wool

See also: cottonwool and cotton-wool

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒtən wʊl/

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Noun

cotton wool (usually uncountable, plural cotton wools)

1. (US) Raw fibers of cotton before being processed.
2. (UK) Soft, absorbent cotton for medical or cosmetic use, protective padding, etc.

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: please add this translation if you can

• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вата f

  Roman: vata (sh) f

• Swedish: råbomull c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

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)

• 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
• 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)
• Venetian: 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)