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きわた【木綿・木棉】

kiwata

Pronunciation: /kiwata/

Definition

Noun

  1. Cotton
  2. Red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba sp.)

Etymology

From 【木】 ki "tree" and わた【綿・棉】 wata "cotton, batting".

Historical attestations:

  • Dictionarivm latino lvsitanicvm, ac Iaponicvm (1595) records "Bambacium, ij. Lus. Algodão. Iap. Qiuata".
  • Vocabulary of the Japanese Language (1795), by Carl Peter Thunberg, records "Cotton, Kiwatta".
  • An English and Japanese and Japanese and English Vocabulary (1830), by Walter Henry Medhurst, records "Silky cotton, Ki wa-ta, キ ワタ".

Spelling

OrthographyForm
Kanji木綿
木棉
Kanaきわた
Romanizationkiwata
Pronunciation (IPA)/kiwata/

意味:もめん・きわた【木綿・木棉】、コットン、めんか【綿花・棉花】、パンヤのき【パンヤの木】

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Cite this entry: Read, Zachary. (2025, January 11). きわた【木綿・木棉】 : kiwata | define meaning. JLect: Japonic Languages and Dialects Database. Retrieved 2025, January 20, from https://www.jlect.com/entry/5713/kiwata/.