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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Madras.
Noun[edit]
madras (countable and uncountable, plural madrases)
- 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
- G. W. Cable
- A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.
Translations[edit]
fabric
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Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch matras or German Matratze (from Middle High German, from Old Italian materazzo).
Noun[edit]
madras c (singular definite madrassen, plural indefinite madrasser)
Declension[edit]
Declension of madras
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | madras | madrassen | madrasser | madrasserne |
genitive | madras' | madrassens | madrassers | madrassernes |
References[edit]
- “madras” in Den Danske Ordbog
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
madras
- madras (type of cotton fabric)
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Madras.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
madras m (plural madras)
Further reading[edit]
- “madras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
madras n (plural madrasuri)
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
- madras in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Màdras.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
màdras m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀драс)
Declension[edit]
Declension of madras
References[edit]
- “madras” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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