madras
English edit
Etymology edit
From Madras, former name of the Indian city Chennai, where it was first produced.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
madras (countable and uncountable, plural madrases)
- A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
- 1887, G. W. Cable, “Au Large”, in Scribner's Monthly, volume 35, page 90:
- A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow Madras turban […] crouched against the wall.
- 2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:
- The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company’s items—cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like—to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can’t make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers
- 2023 June 10, Robert Armstrong, “Check yourself: why I love madras cloth”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 4:
- In one area, however, I stick close to my roots: an unreconstructed loved of madras cloth. Madras (pronounced, in the US, with the emphasis on the first syllable) is a lightweight carded cotton cloth with a bright plaid pattern, first produced in and named for the Indian city now known as Chennai.
- A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.
- Alternative form of Madras (“type of curry”)
- 2002, Desmond Barry, A Bloody Good Friday, page 157:
- Gerry ordered poppadoms and parathas and then he was interrupted by requests for vindaloos, chicken madrases and sag joshes, rice, raita and nan, from Priest, Morgan and Maria Grazia.
Translations edit
fabric
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Further reading edit
- madras (cloth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch matras or German Matratze (from Middle High German, from Old Italian materazzo).
Noun edit
madras c (singular definite madrassen, plural indefinite madrasser)
Declension edit
Declension of madras
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | madras | madrassen | madrasser | madrasserne |
genitive | madras' | madrassens | madrassers | madrassernes |
References edit
- “madras” in Den Danske Ordbog
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
madras
- madras (type of cotton fabric)
Declension edit
Inflection of madras (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | madras | madrakset | ||
genitive | madraksen | madrasten madraksien | ||
partitive | madrasta | madraksia | ||
illative | madrakseen | madraksiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | madras | madrakset | ||
accusative | nom. | madras | madrakset | |
gen. | madraksen | |||
genitive | madraksen | madrasten madraksien | ||
partitive | madrasta | madraksia | ||
inessive | madraksessa | madraksissa | ||
elative | madraksesta | madraksista | ||
illative | madrakseen | madraksiin | ||
adessive | madraksella | madraksilla | ||
ablative | madrakselta | madraksilta | ||
allative | madrakselle | madraksille | ||
essive | madraksena | madraksina | ||
translative | madrakseksi | madraksiksi | ||
abessive | madraksetta | madraksitta | ||
instructive | — | madraksin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “madras”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Etymology edit
From Madras.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
madras m (plural madras)
Further reading edit
- “madras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
madras n (plural madrasuri)
Declension edit
Declension of madras
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) madras | madrasul | (niște) madrasuri | madrasurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) madras | madrasului | (unor) madrasuri | madrasurilor |
vocative | madrasule | madrasurilor |
References edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From Màdras.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
màdras m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀драс)
Declension edit
Declension of madras
References edit
- “madras” in Hrvatski jezični portal