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/[1]
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • 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

Translations

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

References

  1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.572, page 304.

Anagrams

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 inan (Cyrillic spelling Ма̀драс)

  1. Madras (former name of Čenaj (= 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
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