matelas

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.

• IPA^(key): /mat.la/ ~ /mat.lɑ/

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• Rhymes: -a, -ɑ

matelas m (plural matelas)

1. mattress
2. (colloquial) wad (of notes)
3. synonym of tacos français (“French tacos”)

• “matelas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• lamâtes, talâmes