matras

See also: matrâs

English

Noun

matras

1. plural of matra

Anagrams

• Matars, Samrat, Satmar, Smarta, tramas

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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)

1. A mattress.

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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)

1. A mattress (a firm pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
2. By extension, a technical bedding or padding to protect something
3. (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
• → West Frisian: matras

Etymology 2

From French matras, from Arabic مَطَرَة‎ (maṭara, “leather bag”).

Noun

matras m (plural matrassen, diminutive matrasje n)

1. (obsolete) A container of several types: [18th - early 19th c]
   1. an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver
   2. a leather bag
   3. a urinal

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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)

1. a crossbow's square, with a cylindric or quadrangular head

Etymology 2

From Arabic مَطَرَة‎ (maṭara, “leather bag”).

Noun

matras m (plural matras)

1. an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver

Anagrams

• tramas

Further reading

• “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

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Indonesian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch matras.

Noun

matras (first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)

1. mattress

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English matrass.

Noun

matras (first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)

1. (chemistry) bolthead flask.

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Middle English

Noun

matras

1. Alternative form of materas

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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)

1. mattress

Descendants

• French: matelas
• → Middle Dutch: matrasse, matratse
  • Dutch: matras
    • Afrikaans: matras
    • → Indonesian: matras
    • → Russian: матрас (matras)
    • → Sranan Tongo: matrasi
    • → West Frisian: matras
• → Middle English: materas, matras, matres, matrasse, matrace, materaz, materes
  • English: mattress
  • Scots: mattrass