madras

See also: Madras and madrás

English

Etymology

From Madras.

Noun

madras (countable and uncountable, plural madrases)

1. A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
   • G. W. Cable

     A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow madras turban […] crouched against the wall.

   • 2004, The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38

     The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company’s items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can’t make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers

2. A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.

Translations

fabric

• Finnish: madras, madraspuuvilla
• French: madras (fr) m
• Spanish: madrás m

Anagrams

• Mardas, damars, dramas, masdar

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Danish

Etymology

From Dutch matras or German Matratze (from Middle High German, from Old Italian materazzo).

Noun

madras c (singular definite madrassen, plural indefinite madrasser)

1. mattress

Declension

Declension of madras

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	madras	madrassen	madrasser	madrasserne
genitive	madras'	madrassens	madrassers	madrassernes

References

• “madras” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Finnish

Etymology

From English madras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdrɑs/, [ˈmɑdrɑs̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑdrɑs
• Syllabification^(key): mad‧ras

Noun

madras

1. madras (type of cotton fabric)

Declension

Inflection of madras (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		madras	madrakset
genitive		madraksen	madrasten madraksien
partitive		madrasta	madraksia
illative		madrakseen	madraksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		madras	madrakset
accusative	nom.	madras	madrakset
	gen.	madraksen
genitive		madraksen	madrasten madraksien
partitive		madrasta	madraksia
inessive		madraksessa	madraksissa
elative		madraksesta	madraksista
illative		madrakseen	madraksiin
adessive		madraksella	madraksilla
ablative		madrakselta	madraksilta
allative		madrakselle	madraksille
essive		madraksena	madraksina
translative		madrakseksi	madraksiksi
instructive		—	madraksin
abessive		madraksetta	madraksitta
comitative		—	madraksineen

Possessive forms of madras (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	madrakseni	madraksemme
2nd person	madraksesi	madraksenne
3rd person	madraksensa

Synonyms

• madraspuuvilla

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French

Etymology

From Madras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.dʁas/, /ma.dʁɑs/

• Audio

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Noun

madras m (plural madras)

1. (textiles) madras

Further reading

• “madras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French madras.

Noun

madras n (plural madrasuri)

1. (textiles) madras

Declension

Declension of madras

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) madras	madrasul	(niște) madrasuri	madrasurile
genitive/dative	(unui) madras	madrasului	(unor) madrasuri	madrasurilor
vocative	madrasule		madrasurilor

References

• madras in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Màdras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎdras/
• Hyphenation: mad‧ras

Noun

màdras m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀драс)

1. (textiles) madras

Declension

Declension of madras

	singular	plural
nominative	madras	madrasi
genitive	madrasa	madrasa
dative	madrasu	madrasima
accusative	madras	madrase
vocative	madrase	madrasi
locative	madrasu	madrasima
instrumental	madrasom	madrasima

References

• “madras” in Hrvatski jezični portal