madras
English
Etymology
From Madras.
Noun
madras (countable and uncountable, plural madrases)
- A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
- G. W. Cable
- A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow madras turban […] crouched against the wall.
- 2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:
- The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company’s items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can’t make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers
- G. W. Cable
- A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.
Danish
Etymology
From Dutch matras or German Matratze (from Middle High German, from Old Italian materazzo).
Declension
Declension of madras
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | madras | madrassen | madrasser | madrasserne |
| genitive | madras' | madrassens | madrassers | madrassernes |
References
- “madras” in Den Danske Ordbog
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑdrɑs/, [ˈmɑ̝drɑ̝s̠]
- Rhymes: -ɑdrɑs
- Syllabification(key): mad‧ras
Declension
| Inflection of madras (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | madras | madrakset | ||
| genitive | madraksen | madrasten madraksien | ||
| partitive | madrasta | madraksia | ||
| illative | madrakseen | madraksiin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | madras | madrakset | ||
| accusative | nom. | madras | madrakset | |
| gen. | madraksen | |||
| genitive | madraksen | madrasten madraksien | ||
| partitive | madrasta | madraksia | ||
| inessive | madraksessa | madraksissa | ||
| elative | madraksesta | madraksista | ||
| illative | madrakseen | madraksiin | ||
| adessive | madraksella | madraksilla | ||
| ablative | madrakselta | madraksilta | ||
| allative | madrakselle | madraksille | ||
| essive | madraksena | madraksina | ||
| translative | madrakseksi | madraksiksi | ||
| instructive | — | madraksin | ||
| abessive | madraksetta | madraksitta | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms
- madraspuuvilla
French
Etymology
From Madras.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.dʁas/, /ma.dʁɑs/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “madras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Declension
Declension of madras
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) madras | madrasul | (niște) madrasuri | madrasurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) madras | madrasului | (unor) madrasuri | madrasurilor |
| vocative | madrasule | madrasurilor | ||
References
- madras in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Màdras.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mǎdras/
- Hyphenation: mad‧ras
Declension
References
- “madras” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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