English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
mattress (plural mattresses)
- 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.
- A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a pad on which a person can recline and sleep
- Albanian: dyshek (sq)
- Arabic: فِرَاش m (firāš)
- Armenian: ներքնակ (hy) (nerkʿnak), դոշակ (hy) (došak)
- Asturian: colchón m
- Azeri: 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 (zh), 床垫 (zh) (chuángdiàn)
- Czech: matrace f
- Danish: madras (da) c
- Dutch: matras (nl) m
- Esperanto: matraco
- Estonian: madrats
- Faroese: madrassa f
- Finnish: patja (fi)
- French: matelas (fr) m
- Galician: colchón m
- Georgian: ლეიბი (leibi), მატრასი (maṭrasi)
- German: Matratze (de) f
- Greek: στρώμα (el) n (stróma)
- 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)
- Kazakh: матрас (matras)
- Korean: 매트리스 (ko) (maeteuriseu)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: doşek (ku) f, mitêl (ku) f, binrax (ku) f
- 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)
- 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 (bòr)
- 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
- West Coast Bajau: kasur
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engineering: a flat structure of brushwood or similar material used to provide a foundation for a structure including embankments
See also[edit]
mattress (third-person singular simple present mattresses, present participle mattressing, simple past and past participle mattressed)
- (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.
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