matras
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
matras
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
matras (plural matrasse)
- A mattress.
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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).
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
- (types):
DescendantsEdit
- Afrikaans: matras
- → Indonesian: matras
- → Russian: матрас (matras)
- → Sranan Tongo: matrasi
- → West Frisian: matras
Etymology 2Edit
From French matras, from Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “leather bag”).
NounEdit
matras m (plural matrassen, diminutive matrasje n)
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
NounEdit
matras m (plural matras)
- a crossbow's square, with a cylindric or quadrangular head
Etymology 2Edit
From Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “leather bag”).
NounEdit
matras m (plural matras)
- an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “matras” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- 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
IndonesianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
matras (plural, first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from English matrass.
NounEdit
matras (plural, first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
matras
- Alternative form of materas
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”), perhaps via Italian materasso.
NounEdit
matras m (oblique plural matras, nominative singular matras, nominative plural matras)