matras

matras

1. plural of matra

• Matars, Satmar, Smarta, tramas

• matras

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• Hyphenation: ma‧tras

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).

matras n or f (plural matrassen, diminutive matrasje n)

1. A mattress (a firm pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
2. By extension, a technical bedding or padding to protect something
3. (slang, derogatory) A slut, harlot, a girl so easy that 'everybody does her'; sometimes extended to men who are promiscuous

• (types):
  • matraslinnen n
  • matrasdek n
  • matrassenmaker m
  • matrasvulling

From French matras, from Arabic مَطَرَة‎ (maṭara, “leather bag”).

matras ? (plural matrassen, diminutive matrasje n)

1. (obsolete) A container of several types:
   1. an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver
   2. a leather bag
   3. a urinal

• IPA^(key): /ma.tʁɑ/

From Gaulish [Term?].

matras m (plural matras)

1. a crossbow's square, with a cylindric or quadrangular head

From Arabic مَطَرَة‎ (maṭara, “leather bag”).

matras m (plural matras)

1. an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver

• tramas

• “matras” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Dutch matras.

matras (plural matras-matras, first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)

1. mattress

Borrowed from English matrass.

matras (plural matras-matras, first-person possessive matrasku, second-person possessive matrasmu, third-person possessive matrasnya)

1. (chemistry) bolthead flask.

matras

1. Alternative form of materas

matras m (oblique plural matras, nominative singular matras, nominative plural matras)

1. mattress