English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English materas Old French Arabic مَطْرَح ( maṭraḥ , “ place where something is thrown ” ) , from طَرَحَ ( ṭaraḥa , “ to throw ” ) . Compare divan
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)
Apache:
Jicarilla: gołjóon
Arabic: فِرَاش m ( firāš )
Egyptian Arabic: مرتبة f ( martaba )
Armenian: ներքնակ (hy) ( nerkʿnak ) , դոշակ (hy) ( došak )
Asturian: colchón (ast) m
Azerbaijani: döşək (az) , matras
Basque: lastaira
Belarusian: матра́с m ( matrás ) , матра́ц m ( matrác )
Brunei Malay: tilam
Bulgarian: матра́к m ( matrák ) , дюше́к m ( djušék )
Catalan: matalàs (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᏤᏍᏙ ( atsesdo )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 床褥 ( cong4 juk6-2 )
Mandarin: 床墊 (zh) , 床垫 (zh) ( chuángdiàn )
Crimean Tatar: töşek
Czech: matrace (cs) f
Danish: madras (da) c
Dutch: matras (nl) m
Esperanto: matraco
Estonian: madrats (et)
Faroese: madrassa f
Finnish: patja (fi)
French: matelas (fr) m
Galician: colchón m xergón (gl) m almadraque m
Georgian: ლეიბი ( leibi ) , მატრასი ( maṭrasi )
German: Matratze (de) f
Greek: στρώμα (el) n ( stróma )
Ancient: στρῶμα n ( strôma ) , στρωμνή f ( strōmnḗ )
Haitian Creole: matla
Hebrew: מִזְרָן (he) m ( mizran )
Hindi: गद्दा ( gaddā ) , गादी (hi) f ( gādī ) , गद्दी f ( gaddī ) , तोशक (hi) f ( tośak )
Hungarian: matrac (hu) , ágybetét (hu)
Hunsrik: Matratz f
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 )
Kabuverdianu: koltxon
Karachay-Balkar: тёшек ( töşek )
Kazakh: матрас ( matras )
Khmer: ពូក (km) ( puuk )
Korean: 매트리스 (ko) ( maeteuriseu )
Kumyk: тёшек ( töşek )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دۆشەگ (ku) ( doşeg )
Northern Kurdish: doşek (ku) f mitêl (ku) f binrax (ku) f
Kyrgyz: матрас ( matras )
Lao: ຟູກ ( fūk ) , ເບາະ (lo) ( bǫ )
Latin: culcita f
Latvian: matracis
Lithuanian: čiužinys matracas
Macedonian: душек m ( dušek )
Malay: tilam
Manchu: ᠰᡳᠰᡥᡝ ( sishe )
Maori: whāriki moenga
Marathi: गादी f ( gādī )
Mongolian: гудас (mn) ( gudas )
Nepali: गद्दा (ne) ( gaddā )
Ngazidja Comorian: goɗoro 5 or 6
Nogai: тоьсек ( tösek )
Norman: matenas m ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: madrass (no) m
Nynorsk: madrass m
Persian: تشک (fa) ( tošak ) , دوشک (fa) ( došak ) , برخوابه (fa) ( barxâbe )
Plautdietsch: Madrauz f
Polish: materac (pl) m
Portuguese: colchão (pt) m
Romanian: saltea (ro) f
Russian: матра́с (ru) m ( matrás ) , матра́ц (ru) m ( matrác )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: душек m мадрац m
Roman: dušek (sh) m madrac (sh) m
Slovak: matrac m
Spanish: colchón (es) m
Swahili: godoro (sw) , mto (sw)
Swedish: madrass (sv) c
Taos: pį̏ę’éna
Thai: ฟูก (th) ( fôok ) , เบาะ (th) ( bòr )
Tibetan: ཉལ་གདན ( nyal gdan )
Tofa: төъһек
Turkish: döşek (tr) , yatak (tr) , şilte (tr)
Ukrainian: матра́с m ( matrás ) , матра́ц m ( matrác )
Urum: тӧшек
Uzbek: toʻshak (uz) , matras (uz)
Vietnamese: nệm (vi)
Volapük: matrad (vo)
Welsh: matras f matrasau m pl
West Coast Bajau: kasur
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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. Anagrams [ edit ] 
