قطن (qutun) — "cotton" in Modern Standard Arabic
قطن
quTun
cotton
- Topic
- clothing
- Seen in
- 2 of our stories
"cotton" in the other dialects
قطن in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
ثم اشارت الحفيدة الى تنورة عصرية وقالت هذه تنورة زرقاء صغيرة من القطن
Thumma ashārat al-ḥafīdatu ilā tannūratin ʿaṣrīyatin wa-qālat "Hādhihi tannūratun zarqāʾu ṣaghīratun mina al-quṭni."
Then the granddaughter pointed to a modern skirt and said, "This is a small blue skirt made of cotton."
جذبني الملمس الناعم للقطن الفاخر والاقمشة الحريرية اللامعة لاستكشف المزيد
Jadhabanī al-malmas an-nā'im li-l-quṭn al-fākhir wa-l-aqmishah al-ḥarīrīyah al-lāmi'ah li-astakshifa al-mazīd.
The soft touch of fine cotton and the shimmering silk fabrics enticed me to explore further.
More clothing vocabulary
Practice clothing
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