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jute

  (jūt)

1. Either of two Asian plants (Corchorus capsularis or C. olitorius) yielding a fiber used for sacking and cordage.
2. The fiber obtained from these plants.

[Bengali jhuṭo, from Sanskrit jūṭaḥ, twisted hair, probably of Dravidian origin.]

Only three languages in the world are spoken by more people than Bengali. And Bengali-speaking Bangladesh leads the world in exporting jute, our most important import from that language.

Jute entered English in the eighteenth century when English trade began in earnest with India and Bengal. The log of the English ship Wake notes at 8 a.m. on September, 22, 1746: "Sent on shore 60 Bales of Gunney belonging to the Company with all the Jute Rope ... 20 Ropes in all, 116 Bundles."

Jute is a natural fiber, made from the bark of a tree also known as jute that grows especially in the Brahmaputra River valley of present-day Bangladesh. The "gilden fiber" makes not only ropes, yarn, and twine but also mats, rugs, bags, shoes, and clothes. As it became known and widely traded, jute displaced flax as the chief plant fiber of the English-speaking world. Flax mills in Dundee, Scotland, for example, converted to jute in the nineteenth century.

With nearly two hundred million speakers, Bengali is the fourth most populous language in the world, behind only Chinese, English, and Spanish, and ahead of Russian, Japanese, German, French, Arabic, and all others. It is an Indo-European language belonging to the Indo-Iranian and Indic branches. Other English words from Bengali include chaulmoogra (a tree, 1815) and gavial (a crocodile, 1825). The word bungalow (1676) comes from the name Bengali but is actually a Hindi word meaning "of Bengal."

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A plant fiber; forms a cheap, strong, durable yarn; used in the manufacture of canvas and hessian and for the backing of carpet to add strength and stiffness.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - jute

n. - en af de tre germanske stammer der erobrede England i 5. årh., jyde

Nederlands (Dutch)
jute, Jutlander

Français (French)
n. - jute

n. - Jute

Deutsch (German)
n. - Jute

n. - (hist.) Jüte

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γιούτα

Italiano (Italian)
iuta

Português (Portuguese)
n. - juta (f)

Русский (Russian)
джут

Español (Spanish)
n. - yute, cáñamo de las Indias

n. - miembro de una tribu germánica de Jutlandia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - jute

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
朱特人, 朱特族

黄麻, 麻纤维

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 朱特人, 朱特族

n. - 黃麻, 麻纖維

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 주트족

n. - 황마

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ジュート族の人, ジュート族, ツナソ, 黄麻, ジュート

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جوي قنب هندي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יוטה, צמח היוטה‬
n. - ‮יוטי - בן לשבט גרמני שהתיישב במחוז קנט בבריטניה במאות 5-6 לספירה‬

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