köken: From Middle High German materaz, from Old French materas, from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ). The modern German form was influenced by older Italian materazzo and/or Medieval Latin matracium, from the same Arabic source. (The Old French form may have been borrowed via Italian, too.)
mattress · wad (of notes) · synonym of tacos français (“French tacos”)
köken: From Old French materas, probably from Italian materasso (perhaps via Frankish), from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “carpet, place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”). Doublet of matras.
mattress (pad on which a person can recline and sleep) · buffer, cushion, padding (something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact) · nest egg
çekim: çoğul colchones
köken: From colcha + -ón. Cognate with Portuguese colchão.
aile: colchón de agua, colchón de aire, colchón de muelles, colchón de novia, colchonero, colchoneta
mattress (a pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
çekim: çoğul матрастар · tamlayan матрастың
köken: Borrowed from Russian матра́с (matrás), from Dutch matras, from Old French materas, from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”).
a mattress (a firm pad on which a person can recline and sleep) · a technical bedding or padding to protect something · a slut, harlot, a girl so easy that 'everybody does her'; sometimes extended to men who are promiscuous
çekim: çoğul matrassen
köken: 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).
mattress (a pad on which a person can recline and sleep) · cushion, pad (soft mass of material acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact and especially when quite large) · (thick) stratum, layer of soil, air, water
çekim: çoğul patjat · tamlayan patjan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *patja (compare Estonian padi), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *badją (compare German Bett). Doublet of peti.
köken: Uncertain; proposed derivations include: * According to Varro, from calcō (“to trample”). * From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-. Cognates include Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom”). * From Proto-Indo-European *ḱol-bʰo-, like English half.
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