matelas
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]matelas m (plural matelas)
- mattress
- (colloquial) wad (of notes)
- Synonym of tacos français (“French tacos”)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “matelas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Italian
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Arabic
- French doublets
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:French/a
- Rhymes:French/a/3 syllables
- Rhymes:French/ɑ
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French colloquialisms
- fr:Bedding