бумага

Uncertain. Believed to be from Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”) through some Mediterranean term for cotton wool and/or cloth, since first attestations of the root in the 15th and 16th centuries are mostly with a now obsolete sense, the only remnant of which in modern active vocabulary is хлопчатобумажный (xlopčatobumažnyj, “made from cotton”). First paper was imported to Russia from Italy and Greece.

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бума́га • (bumága) f inan (genitive бума́ги, nominative plural бума́ги, genitive plural бума́г)

1. (obsolete) cotton wool
2. paper
3. document