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Madras

See also: madras and madrás

English edit

 
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 Madras, Oregon on Wikipedia

Etymology edit

The etymology is uncertain; it may derive from Madraspattinam. See Wikipedia for several possible etymologies.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /məˈdɹæs/, /məˈdɹɑːs/[1]
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æs

Proper noun edit

Madras

  1. Former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India.
    Synonym: (current name) Chennai
  2. A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

Noun edit

Madras (countable and uncountable, plural Madrases)

  1. (UK) A style of curry dish purported to originate from the Madras region.
    I’ll have the chicken Madras.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.572, page 304.

Anagrams edit

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Proper noun edit

Madras f

  1. Madras (former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India)
    Synonyms: Chennai, Madrasta

Serbo-Croatian edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mǎdras/
  • Hyphenation: Mad‧ras

Proper noun edit

Màdras m (Cyrillic spelling Ма̀драс)

  1. Madras (former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India)

Declension edit

Declension of Madras
singular
nominative Madras
genitive Madrasa
dative Madrasu
accusative Madras
vocative Madrase
locative Madrasu
instrumental Madrasom

References edit

  • “Madras” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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