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”).
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.
quadripes per angustias cauernae in proximam cellam decubuit super lectum modica culcita
Borrowed from Literary Chinese, possibly early Mandarin 蒲團／蒲团 (pútuán), likely as part of the importation of Zen Buddhism, for which practice these were originally used. First cited in Japanese to a text from the early-mid 1200s with the "meditation cushion" sense. Originally referred literally to a 蒲 (pú, “bulrush, cattail”) 團／团 (tuán, “ball”), from the way these were round cushions made from…