cotton meaning in Sinhala
කපු kapu
UK/ˈkɒt.n̩//ˈkɑt.n̩/
cotton in Sinhala: කපු (kapu). In English, cotton means a soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
Sinhala words for cotton
- cotton
- කපු kapu
English meaning of cotton
- noun A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
- noun Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
- noun A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.
- noun Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
Synonyms of cotton
cotton in other languages
- cotton in Hindi
- cotton in Tamil
- cotton in Marathi
- cotton in Urdu
- cotton in Bengali
- cotton in Telugu
- cotton in Malayalam
- cotton in Kannada
- cotton in Punjabi
- cotton in Gujarati
- cotton in Odia
- cotton in Sanskrit
- cotton in Assamese
- cotton in Nepali
- cotton in Pashto
- cotton in Tagalog
- cotton in Arabic
- cotton in Malay
- cotton in Indonesian
- cotton in Persian
- cotton in Thai
- cotton in Vietnamese
- cotton in Myanmar
Questions about cotton in Sinhala
- What is the meaning of cotton in Sinhala?
- Cotton in Sinhala is කපු (kapu).
- cotton යන්නෙහි සිංහල තේරුම කුමක්ද?
- Cotton: කපු (kapu).
- What does cotton mean in English?
- Cotton means a soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
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Sinhala words from Wiktionary's Sinhala entries whose English meaning is “cotton”: කපු. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: cotton (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sinhala words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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