Picture an animal whose hair has simply been allowed to grow: a rabbit so round with fur that you cannot find its feet, a goat with a coat that hangs down like a curtain, a white cat that takes up twice the space it should. That is what the word first points at, a breed marked out by long, soft hair. Everything else the word does follows the hair: brush it off, spin it into thread, knit the thread, and the name travels with it all the way onto a clothing label.
From the word’s history
The source says angora comes from the name of the Turkish city Ankara, known in English as Angora, and that the city name goes back to Ancient Greek ankura, meaning anchor. The place name came first; the animals known from there took it, and then their hair did.
來源說 angora 來自土耳其城市 Ankara 的名字，這座城以前在英文裡就寫作 Angora，再往前是古希臘文 ánkura，意思是「錨」。先有地名，那裡出名的長毛動物拿走了這個名字，動物身上的毛又再拿走一次。很多布料名字都是這樣從地名來的。
Wiktionary entry for angora, packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1182141625:10870
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