English

Proper noun

Madras

1. Former name of Chennai (the state capital of Tamil Nadu, India).

Synonyms

• Chennai (current name)

Translations

Noun

Madras

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

   I’ll have the Chicken Madras.

See also

• Chennai

Anagrams

• dramas, masdar

Portuguese

Proper noun

Madras f

1. Madras; Chennai (a city, the state capital 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

Declension

References

• “Madras” in Hrvatski jezični portal

English

Noun

madras ‎(countable and uncountable, plural madrases)

1. 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, The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.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

Translations

Anagrams

• dramas
• masdar

Danish

Etymology

From Dutch matras or German Matratze (from Middle High German, from Old Italian materazzo).

Noun

madras c (singular definite madrassen, plural indefinite madrasser)

1. mattress

Declension

References

• “madras” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Madras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /madʁɑs/, /madʁas/

Noun

madras m ‎(plural madras)

1. (textiles) madras

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Màdras.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

màdras m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ма̀драс)

1. (textiles) madras

Declension

References

• “madras” in Hrvatski jezični portal