mattress

English

Mattress

Etymology

From Middle English materas, from Old French, from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”). Compare divan, from Persian via Turkish (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mattress (plural mattresses)

1. A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
2. A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment

Derived terms

Derived terms

• air mattress
• go to the mattresses
• mattress cover

• mattress pad
• mattress topper

Translations

a pad on which a person can recline and sleep

• Albanian: dyshek (sq)
• Apache:

  Jicarilla: gołjóon

• Arabic: فِرَاش m (firāš)
• Armenian: ներքնակ (hy) (nerkʻnak), դոշակ (hy) (došak)
• Asturian: colchón m
• Azerbaijani: döşək (az), matras
• Basque: lastaira
• Belarusian: матра́с m (matrás), матра́ц m (matrác)
• Bulgarian: матра́к m (matrák), дюше́к m (djušék)
• Catalan: matalàs (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 床墊／床垫 (zh) (chuángdiàn), 床垫 (zh) (chuángdiàn)

• Czech: matrace f
• Danish: madras (da) c
• Dutch: matras (nl) m
• Esperanto: matraco
• Estonian: madrats (et)
• Faroese: madrassa f
• Finnish: patja (fi)
• French: matelas (fr) m
• Galician: colchón m, xergón (gl) m
• Georgian: ლეიბი (leibi), მატრასი (maṭrasi)
• German: Matratze (de) f
• Greek: στρώμα (el) n (stróma)

  Ancient Greek: στρῶμα n (strôma), στρωμνή f (strōmnḗ)

• Haitian Creole: matla
• Hebrew: מִזְרָן (he) m (mizran)
• Hindi: गद्दा (gaddā)
• Hungarian: matrac (hu), ágybetét (hu)
• Icelandic: dýna (is) f
• Indonesian: matras (id)
• Interlingua: matras
• Italian: materasso (it) m
• Japanese: 布団 (ja) (ふとん, futon), マットレス (ja) (mattoresu)
• Kabuverdianu: koltxon
• Kazakh: матрас (matras)
• Korean: 매트리스 (ko) (maeteuriseu)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: , ,

  Sorani: دۆشەگ (doşeg)

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• Kyrgyz: матрас (matras)
• Latin: culcita f
• Latvian: matracis
• Lithuanian: čiužinys, matracas
• Macedonian: душек m (dušek)
• Maori: whāriki moenga
• Marathi: गादी f (gādī)
• Mongolian: гудас (mn) (gudas)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Ngazidja Comorian: goɗoro class 5/6
• Norman: matenas m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: madrass (no) m

  Nynorsk: madrass m

• Persian: تشک (fa) (tošak), دوشک (fa) (došak), برخوابه (fa) (barxâbe)
• Polish: materac (pl) m
• Portuguese: colchão (pt) m
• Romanian: saltea (ro)
• Russian: матра́с (ru) m (matrás), матра́ц (ru) m (matrác)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: душек m, мадрац m

  Roman: dušek (sh) m, madrac (sh) m

• Spanish: colchón (es) m
• Swahili: godoro (sw), mto (sw)
• Swedish: madrass (sv) c
• Taos: pį̏ę’éna
• Thai: ฟูก (th) (fôok), เบาะ (th) (bòr)
• Tibetan: ཉལ་གདན (nyal gdan)
• Turkish: döşek (tr), yatak (tr), şilte (tr)
• Ukrainian: матра́с m (matrás), матра́ц m (matrác)
• Uzbek: toʻshak (uz), matras (uz)
• Vietnamese: nệm (vi)
• Volapük: matrad (vo)
• Welsh: matras f, matrasau m pl
• West Coast Bajau: kasur
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

engineering: a flat structure of brushwood or similar material used to provide a foundation for a structure including embankments

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See also

• bottom sheet
• futon

Verb

mattress (third-person singular simple present mattresses, present participle mattressing, simple past and past participle mattressed)

1. (transitive) To cover with a thick layer, like a mattress; to blanket.
   • 1997, Andrew R. M. Patterson, A planet through a field of stars (page 123)

     A comfortable litter of pine needles had mattressed the ground and spreading branches had been a canopy overhead.

Anagrams

• smart set, smartest, smatters