mattress

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Mattress

Etymology

From Middle English materas, from Old French, from Arabic مطرح (máʈraħ, “place where something is thrown”), from طرح (ʈáraħa, “to throw”).

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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

• go to the mattresses
• mattress cover
• mattress pad
• mattress topper

Translations

a pad on which a person can recline and sleep

• Arabic: فراش m (firāš)
• Armenian: ներքնակ (nerkʿnak), դոշակ (došak)
• Asturian: colchón m
• Azeri: döşək (az)
• Basque: lastaira
• Catalan: matalàs m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 床墊, 床垫 (zh) (chuángdiàn)

• Czech: matrace f
• Danish: madras (da)
• Dutch: matras (nl) m
• Esperanto: matraco
• Finnish: patja (fi)
• French: matelas (fr) m
• Galician: colchón m
• Georgian: ლეიბი (leibi)
• German: Matratze (de) f
• Greek: στρώμα (el) n (stróma)
• Hebrew: מזרן (he) m (mizran)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: matrac (hu), ágybetét (hu)
• Indonesian: matras (id)
• Interlingua: matras
• Italian: materasso (it) m
• Japanese: 蒲団 (ふとん, futon), マットレス (ja) (mattoresu)
• Jèrriais: matenas m
• Korean: 매트리스 (ko) (maeteuriseu)

• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: doşek (ku) f, mitêl (ku) f, binrax (ku) f

  Sorani: دۆشەگ (doşeg)

• Latin: culcita f
• Latvian: matracis
• Lithuanian: čiužinys, matracas
• Marathi: गादी f (gādī)
• Mongolian: гудас (gudas)
• Ngazidja Comorian: goɗoro class 5/6
• Persian: برخوابه (fa) (barxâbe), دوشک (fa) (došak), توشک (fa) (tušak)
• Polish: materac (pl) m
• Portuguese: colchão (pt) m
• Romanian: saltea (ro)
• Russian: матрас (ru) m (matrás), матрац (ru) m (matrác)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: душек m, мадрац m

  Roman: dušek m, madrac m

• Spanish: colchón (es) m
• Swahili: godoro (sw), mto (sw)
• Swedish: madrass (sv) c
• Taos: pį̏ę’éna
• Thai: ฟูก (fôok), เบาะ (bòr)
• Turkish: döşek (tr), yatak (tr), şitle
• Vietnamese: nệm (vi)
• Volapük: matrad (vo)
• Welsh: matras f

See also

• futon
• botton sheet

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