matras

matras

1. plural of matra

• Matars, Samrat, Satmar, Smarta, tramas

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).

• IPA^(key): /maˈtras/

matras (plural matrasse)

1. A mattress.

• IPA^(key): /maːˈtrɑs/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧tras
• Rhymes: -ɑs

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).

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

• Afrikaans: matras
• → Indonesian: matras
• → Russian: матрас (matras)
• → Sranan Tongo: matrasi
  • → Saramaccan: mataási
• → West Frisian: matras

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ma.tʁa/ ~ /ma.tʁɑ/

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Inherited from Middle French matraz / materas, from Old French materas / maturas, from Latin matara, materis, madaris (“Celtic javelin”), a word of Celtic/Gaulish origin.

matras m (invariable)

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

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

matras m (invariable)

1. an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver

• → Catalan: matràs
• → English: matrass
• → Spanish: matraz

• “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

• tramas

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmatras/ [ˈmat̪̚.ras]
• Rhymes: -atras
• Syllabification: mat‧ras

Borrowed from Dutch matras.

matras (plural matras-matras)

1. mattress

Borrowed from English matrass.

matras (plural matras-matras)

1. (chemistry) bolthead flask

• “matras”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

matras

1. alternative form of materas

• materas

From Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”), perhaps via Italian materasso.

matras oblique singular, m (oblique plural matras, nominative singular matras, nominative plural matras)

1. mattress

• 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