Madras

See also: madras and madrás

English

Etymology

The etymology is uncertain; it may derive from Madraspattinam. See Wikipedia for several possible etymologies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈdɹæs/, /məˈdɹɑːs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æs

Proper noun

Madras

1. Former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India.

   Synonym: (current name) Chennai

2. A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.

Derived terms

• madras
• Madras Time

Translations

city

• Arabic: مَدْرَاس m (madrās)
• Armenian: Մադրաս (Madras)
• Bengali: মাদ্রাজ (bn) (madraj)
• Bulgarian: Мадрас m (Madras)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬德拉斯 / 马德拉斯 (zh) (Mǎdélāsī)

• Danish: Madras
• Dutch: Madras
• Finnish: Madras
• French: Madras (fr) m
• German: Madras n
• Hindi: मद्रास (hi) (madrās), मदरास (hi) m (madrās)
• Japanese: マドラス (Madorasu)
• Kannada: ಮದ್ರಾಸು (kn) (madrāsu)
• Korean: 마드라스 (Madeuraseu)
• Malayalam: മദ്രാസ് (madrāsŭ)
• Marathi: मद्रास (madrās)
• Polish: Madras m
• Portuguese: Madras f, Madrasta f
• Russian: Мадра́с m (Madrás)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ма̀драс m

  Roman: Màdras (sh) m

• Spanish: Madras m
• Swedish: Madras
• Tagalog: Madras
• Tamil: மெட்ராஸ் (meṭrās), மதுராசு (maturācu), மதறாஸ் (mataṟās)
• Telugu: మద్రాసు (madrāsu)
• Urdu: مدراس (madrās)

Noun

Madras (countable and uncountable, plural Madrases)

1. (British) A style of curry dish purported to originate from the Madras region.

   I’ll have the chicken Madras.

See also

• Chennai

Anagrams

• Mardas, damars, dramas, masdar

Portuguese

Proper noun

Madras f

1. Madras (former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India)

   Synonyms: Chennai, Madrasta

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎdras/
• Hyphenation: Mad‧ras

Proper noun

Màdras m (Cyrillic spelling Ма̀драс)

1. Madras (former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India)

Declension

Declension of Madras

	singular
nominative	Madras
genitive	Madrasa
dative	Madrasu
accusative	Madras
vocative	Madrase
locative	Madrasu
instrumental	Madrasom

References

• “Madras”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025