matras

See also: Matras, matrâs, and matràs

English

Noun

matras

1. 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)

1. A mattress.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːˈtrɑs/

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• 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
  • → Saramaccan: mataási
• → 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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.tʁa/ ~ /ma.tʁɑ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Provençal matrat (“arrow”), from Old French matras, from Latin matara, 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

Borrowed from Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “leather bag”).

Noun

matras m (plural matras)

1. 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)

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.

Middle English

Noun

matras

1. 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 oblique singular, 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
      • → Saramaccan: mataási
    • → West Frisian: matras
• → Middle English: materas, matras, matres, matrasse, matrace, materaz, materes
  • English: mattress
  • Scots: mattrass