# matras
## English
### Noun

matras
* plural of matra

### Anagrams

* Matars, Samrat, Satmar, Smarta, tramas

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch matras, 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).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈtras/

### Noun

matras (plural matrasse)
* A mattress.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːˈtrɑs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ma‧tras
* Rhymes: -ɑs

### Etymology 1

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).

#### Noun

matras n or f (plural matrassen, diminutive matrasje n)
* a mattress (a firm pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
* by extension, a technical bedding or padding to protect something
* (slang, derogatory) a slut, harlot, a girl so easy that 'everybody does her'; sometimes extended to men who are promiscuous

##### Derived terms

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

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: matras
* → Indonesian: matras
* → Russian: матрас (matras)
* → Sranan Tongo: matrasi
** → Saramaccan: mataási
* → West Frisian: matras

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

matras m (plural matrassen, diminutive matrasje n)
* (obsolete) a container of several types: [18th–early 19th c.]
** an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver
** a leather bag
** a urinal

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.tʁa/ ~ /ma.tʁɑ/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Provençal matrat (“arrow”), from Old French matras, from Latin matara, materis, madaris (“Celtic javelin”), a word of Celtic/Gaulish origin. Doublet of matras.

#### Noun

matras m (plural matras)
* a crossbow's square, with a cylindric or quadrangular head

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “leather bag”).

#### Noun

matras m (plural matras)
* an alchemist's long-necked glass receiver

### Further reading

* “matras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A Work of Universal Reference in All Departments of Knowledge with a New Atlas of the World. (1906). United States: Century Company, p. 3660

### Anagrams

* tramas

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈmatras/ [ˈmat̪̚.ras]
* Rhymes: -atras
* Syllabification: mat‧ras

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch matras.

#### Noun

matras (plural matras-matras)
* mattress

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English matrass.

#### Noun

matras (plural matras-matras)
* (chemistry) bolthead flask

### Further reading

* “matras” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Middle English
### Noun

matras
* Alternative form of materas

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* materas

### Etymology

From Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”), perhaps via Italian materasso.

### Noun

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

#### Descendants

* French: matelas
* → Middle Dutch: matrasse, matratse
** Dutch: matras
*** Afrikaans: matras
*** → Indonesian: matras
*** → Russian: матрас (matras)
*** → Sranan Tongo: matrasi
**** → Saramaccan: mataási
*** → West Frisian: matras
* → Middle English: materas, matras, matres, matrasse, matrace, materaz, materes
** English: mattress
** Scots: mattrass