Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).
Meanings
(Canada, Philippines, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse. 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 153:
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
(historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
cy preseb (bed for children) · la grabātus (portable or temporary bed) · fi lisävuode (portable or temporary bed) · fi varavuode (portable or temporary bed) · gu ખાટલો (portable or temporary bed) · bg ко́йка (nautical: wooden bed frame) · it culla (bed for children) · fr huche (bed for children) · no sprinkelseng (bed for children) · es catre (portable or temporary bed) · cmn 嬰兒床 /婴儿床 (bed for children) · cmn 小床 (bed for children) · ru ко́йка (portable or temporary bed) · fr lit de camp (portable or temporary bed) · cmn 娃娃床 (bed for children) · sh dječji krevetac (bed for children) · cy cot (bed for children) · fi heteka (portable or temporary bed) · it greppia (bed for children) · el κούνια (bed for children) · nl ledikantje (bed for children) · es catre de tijera (portable or temporary bed) · cmn 折疊床 /折叠床 (portable or temporary bed) · sh дјечји креветац (bed for children) · fi kenttävuode (portable or temporary bed) · uk дитя́че лі́жечко (bed for children) · bg де́тско крева́тче (bed for children) · pt catre (portable or temporary bed) · fi vauvasänky (bed for children) · ko 어린이 침대 (bed for children) · ja ベビーベッド (bed for children) · vo flegülabed (portable or temporary bed) · it lettino (bed for children) · fr lit de bébé (bed for children) · cmn 行軍床 /行军床 (portable or temporary bed) · cmn 兒童床 /儿童床 (bed for children) · fi riippusänky (nautical: wooden bed frame) · no barneseng (bed for children) · sh дечји креветац (bed for children) · cs lehátko (portable or temporary bed) · cs postýlka (bed for children) · nl kinderbed (bed for children) · sh krevetac (bed for children) · tr bebek karyolası (bed for children) · de Kinderbett (bed for children) · gu ખાટલી (portable or temporary bed) · ru де́тская крова́тка (bed for children) · fi pinnasänky (bed for children) · de Feldbett (portable or temporary bed) · yi באַנקבעטל (nautical: wooden bed frame) · sh креветац (bed for children) · he עַרְסָלָה (nautical: wooden bed frame) · yi באַנקבעטל (portable or temporary bed) · bg похо́дно легло́ (portable or temporary bed) · ru раскладу́шка (portable or temporary bed) · es catrera (portable or temporary bed) · cy crud (bed for children) · it presepe (bed for children) · es cuna (bed for children) · ca bressol (bed for children) · nl wieg (bed for children) · es pesebre (bed for children) · he מִטַּת שָׂדֶה (portable or temporary bed) · ru подвесна́я посте́ль (nautical: wooden bed frame) · nv tsáskʼeh áłtsʼóózígíí (portable or temporary bed) · sv hopfällbar säng (portable or temporary bed) · es colombina (portable or temporary bed) · sv brits (portable or temporary bed) · it branda (portable or temporary bed) · fi lastensänky (bed for children) · fi punkka (portable or temporary bed) · pt berço (bed for children) · fi pukkisänky (portable or temporary bed) · ru ко́йка (nautical: wooden bed frame) · sh dečji krevetac (bed for children)
From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.
Meanings
(archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:
One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot. 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem).
Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban
[H]e would [...] return in the evening from the west of her cot to spend another hour or two in the garden. 1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 21:
A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
it riparo (cover or sheath) · it capanna (cover or sheath) · ru уса́дьба (homestead) · it capanna (homestead) · it stabbio (cover or sheath) · it ditale (finger cover to prevent static discharge) · bg коли́ба (homestead) · gv cott (homestead) · it stalla (cover or sheath) · fi tuppi (cover or sheath) · cmn 小屋 (homestead) · fi mökki (homestead) · it casupola (homestead) · bg кошара (cover or sheath) · fi sormituppi (cover or sheath) · ja 小屋 (homestead) · pt casebre (homestead) · fi sormustin (finger cover to prevent static discharge) · ru хи́жина (homestead) · ru лачу́га (homestead) · it casolare (homestead)
From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.
Meanings
A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
a cot for a sore finger
a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)
(obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag. 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347: