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English
Commons:Category
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 (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans).
Pronunciation
Noun
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
A form of lagging , in particular for boilers.
1941 April, “British Locomotive Developments”, in The Railway Magazine , London: Tothill Press, →ISSN , →OCLC , page 173 :Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring.
1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine , page 185 :The boiler and firebox are lagged with a lightweight Fibreglass mattress .
Derived terms
Translations
a pad on which a person can recline and sleep
Albanian: dyshek (sq) m
Apache:
Jicarilla: gołjóon
Arabic: فِرَاش m ( firāš ) , مَرْتَبَة f ( martaba )
Algerian Arabic: مَطْرَح m ( meṭraḥ )
Egyptian Arabic: مرتبة f ( martaba )
Gulf Arabic: دوشق m ( dawšag )
Armenian: ներքնակ (hy) ( nerkʻnak ) , դոշակ (hy) ( došak )
Asturian: colchón (ast) m
Azerbaijani: döşək (az) , matras
Basque: lastaira , koltxoi
Belarusian: матра́с m ( matrás ) , матра́ц m ( matrác )
Bengali: তোশক (bn) ( tōśok )
Brunei Malay: tilam
Bulgarian: матра́к m ( matrák ) , дюше́к m ( djušék )
Burmese: မွေ့ရာ (my) ( mwe.ra )
Catalan: matalàs (ca) m
Cebuano: kutson
Chavacano: colchon
Cherokee: ᎠᏤᏍᏙ ( atsesdo )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 床褥 ( cong4 juk6-2 )
Mandarin: 床墊 / 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 ( mizrán )
Hiligaynon: koltson
Hindi: गद्दा m ( 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
Kannada: ಮೆತ್ತೆ (kn) ( mette )
Karachay-Balkar: тёшек ( töşek )
Kazakh: матрас ( matras )
Khmer: ពូក (km) ( puuk )
Korean: 매트리스 (ko) ( maeteuriseu ) , 요 (ko) ( yo ) ( Korean style, on the floor )
Kumyk: тёшек ( töşek )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دۆشەگ ( 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 m
Lithuanian: čiužinys m , matracas m
Macedonian: душек m ( dušek )
Malay: tilam (ms)
Manchu: ᠰᡳᠰᡥᡝ ( sishe )
Maori: whāriki moenga , takapau
Marathi: गादी f ( gādī )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гудас (mn) ( gudas )
Nepali: गद्दा (ne) ( gaddā )
Ngazidja Comorian: goɗoro class 5 /6
Nogai: тоьсек ( tösek )
Norman: matenas m ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: madrass (no) m
Nynorsk: madrass m
Ottoman Turkish: دوشك ( döşek ) , شلته ( şilte )
Pashto: توشکه (ps) f ( tošaka )
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 )
Sami:
Kildin Sami: пе̄ренҍ ( pier’en’ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ду̀шек m , ма̀драц m
Roman: dùšek (sh) m , màdrac (sh) m
Sicilian: matarazzu (scn) m , matrazzu m
Slovak: matrac m
Spanish: colchón (es) m
Swahili: godoro (sw) , mto (sw)
Swedish: madrass (sv) c
Tagalog: kutson
Taos: pį̏ęʼéna
Telugu: పరుపు (te) ( parupu ) , మెత్త (te) ( metta )
Thai: ฟูก (th) ( fûuk ) , เบาะ (th) ( bɔ̀ )
Tibetan: ཉལ་གདན ( nyal gdan )
Tofa: төъһек
Turkish: döşek (tr) , yatak (tr) , şilte (tr)
Ukrainian: матра́ц m ( matrác )
Urdu: توشَک f ( tośak ) , گَدّا m ( gaddā )
Urum: тӧшек
Uyghur: تەشتەك ( teshtek ) , ماتراس ( matras )
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
Yiddish: מאַטראַץ m ( matrats )
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
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Verb
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.
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