mattress

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Mattress

Etymology

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.

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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

Derived terms

air mattress go to the mattresses mattress cover

mattress pad mattress topper

Translations

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)
• 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)

• 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

engineering: a flat structure of brushwood or similar material used to provide a foundation for a structure including embankments

See also

• futon
• bottom sheet

Verb

mattress ‎(third-person singular simple present mattresses, present participle mattressing, simple past and past participle mattressed)

1. (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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