cot

n. 行军床, 小屋, (家畜等的)棚, (家畜等的)栏
【医】 指套; 小床

cot

n.（名词）
A narrow bed, especially one made of canvas on a collapsible frame.
小床：一种窄的床，尤指用帆布在具伸缩性框架上制成的
Chiefly British A crib.
【多用于英国】 摇篮

来源：
Hindi kh3ú
印地语 kh3ú
from Sanskrit khaúv3
源自 梵文 khaúv3
from Tamil kaúúu [to bind, tie]
源自 泰米尔语 kaúúu [栓住，系住]

<注释>People might assume that there is nothing particularly exotic about the history of the wordcot. However,cot happens to be a good example of how words are borrowed from other cultures, becoming so firmly naturalized over time that they lose their émigré flavor. The British first encountered the object denoted bycot, a light frame strung with tapes or rope, in India, where their trading stations had been established as early as '2.The wordcot, first recorded in English in '34, comes fromkh3ú, the Hindi name for the contrivance. During subsequent years,cot has been used to denote other types of beds, including in British usage a crib.
人们也许会认为cot 这个词的词源毫无特别的异国情调， 但是cot 恰巧是这样一个好的例子——从别的文化中借来又变得如此根深蒂固，以致于随着时间推移其丢失了外来语的味道。 英国人首先遇到这种叫做cot 的穿有带子和绳子的框架是在印度， 他们早在'2年就在那里建了贸易站。单词cot 在英语中首先记录于'34年， 由印度语中表示这个东西的词khat 而来。 在以后的岁月中，cot 已被用来指其他类型的床， 包括英国表示摇篮的用法

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cot
cot 2

n.（名词）
A small house.
棚：小房子
A protective covering or sheath.
鞘：一种保护性的覆盖物或套

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old English
源自 古英语