matras
English
Noun
matras
- plural of matra
Anagrams
- Matars, Samrat, Satmar, Smarta, tramas
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch matras, from Middle Dutch matrasse, matratse, from Old French materas (modern matelas), from Italian materasso (cognate with Occitan almatrac, Spanish almadraque, Portuguese almadraque), from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ), itself perhaps from مُطْرَح (muṭraḥ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈtras/
Noun
matras (plural matrasse)
- A mattress.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maːˈtrɑs/
matras (file) - Hyphenation: ma‧tras
- Rhymes: -ɑs
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch matrasse, matratse, from Old French materas (modern matelas), from Italian materasso (cognate with Occitan almatrac, Spanish almadraque, Portuguese almadraque), from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ), itself perhaps from مُطْرَح (muṭraḥ).
Noun
matras n or f (plural matrassen, diminutive matrasje n)
- A mattress (a firm pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
- By extension, a technical bedding or padding to protect something
- (slang, derogatory) A slut, harlot, a girl so easy that 'everybody does her'; sometimes extended to men who are promiscuous
Derived terms
- (types):
- matraslinnen n
- matrasdek n
- matrassenmaker m
- matrasvulling
Descendants
- Afrikaans: matras
- → Indonesian: matras
- → Russian: матрас (matras)
- → Sranan Tongo: matrasi
- → Saramaccan: mataási
- → West Frisian: matras
Etymology 2
From French matras, from Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “leather bag”).
Noun
matras m (plural matrassen, diminutive matrasje n)
- (obsolete) A container of several types: [18th–early 19th c.]
- an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver
- a leather bag
- a urinal
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.tʁa/, /ma.tʁɑ/
Etymology 1
From Provençal matrat (“arrow”), from Old French matras, from Latin matara, mataris, materis, madaris (“Celtic javelin”), a word of Celtic/Gaulish origin. Doublet of matras.
Noun
matras m (plural matras)
- a crossbow's square, with a cylindric or quadrangular head
Etymology 2
From Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “leather bag”).
Noun
matras m (plural matras)
- an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver
Further reading
- “matras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A Work of Universal Reference in All Departments of Knowledge with a New Atlas of the World. (1906). United States: Century Company, p. 3660
Anagrams
- tramas
Indonesian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Dutch matras.
Noun
matras (first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)
- mattress
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English matrass.
Noun
matras (first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)
- (chemistry) bolthead flask.
Middle English
Noun
matras
- Alternative form of materas
Old French
Alternative forms
- materas
Etymology
From Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”), perhaps via Italian materasso.
Noun
matras m (oblique plural matras, nominative singular matras, nominative plural matras)
- mattress
Descendants
- French: matelas
- → Middle Dutch: matrasse, matratse
- Dutch: matras
- Afrikaans: matras
- → Indonesian: matras
- → Russian: матрас (matras)
- → Sranan Tongo: matrasi
- → Saramaccan: mataási
- → West Frisian: matras
- Dutch: matras
- → Middle English: materas, matras, matres, matrasse, matrace, materaz, materes
- English: mattress
- Scots: mattrass