matras
English
Noun
matras
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Dutch
Pronunciation
matras: (file) - Hyphenation: ma‧tras
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)
- A mattress (a firm pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
- By extension, a technical bedding or padding to protect something
- (slang, derogatory) A slut, harlot, a girl so easy that 'everybody does her'; sometimes extended to men who are promiscuous
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Etymology 2
From French matras, from Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “leather bag”).
Noun
matras m (plural matrassen, diminutive matrasje n)
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Gaulish [Term?].
Noun
matras m (plural matras)
- a crossbow's square, with a cylindric or quadrangular head
Etymology 2
From Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “leather bag”).
Noun
matras m (plural matras)
- an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver
Anagrams
Further reading
- “matras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology 1
Noun
matras (first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English matrass.
Noun
matras (first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)
Middle English
Noun
matras
- Alternative form of materas
Old French
Alternative forms
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)
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- nl:Bedding
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