mattress

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Compare, from Persian via Turkish (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans).

Noun

 * 1) A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
 * 2) A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment
 * 3) A form of lagging, in particular for boilers.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Apache:
 * Jicarilla: gołjóon
 * Arabic: فِرَاش, مَرْتَبَة
 * Algerian Arabic: مَطْرَح
 * Egyptian Arabic: مرتبة
 * Gulf Arabic: دوشق
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, matras
 * Basque: lastaira, koltxoi
 * Belarusian: матра́с, матра́ц
 * Bengali:
 * Brunei Malay: tilam
 * Bulgarian: матра́к, дюше́к
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kutson
 * Chavacano: colchon
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏤᏍᏙ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 床褥
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: töşek
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: matraco
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: madrassa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: colchón,, almadraque
 * Georgian:, მატრასი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: στρῶμα, στρωμνή
 * Haitian Creole: matla
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: koltson
 * Hindi: गद्दा,, गद्दी,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hunsrik: Matratz
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: matras
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: koltxon
 * Kannada:
 * Karachay-Balkar: тёшек
 * Kazakh: матрас
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kumyk: тёшек
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دۆشەگ
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: матрас
 * Lao: ຟູກ,
 * Latin: culcita
 * Latvian: matracis
 * Lithuanian: čiužinys, matracas
 * Macedonian: душек
 * Malay:
 * Manchu: ᠰᡳᠰᡥᡝ
 * Maori: whāriki moenga, takapau
 * Marathi: गादी
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Nepali:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: goɗoro
 * Nogai: тоьсек
 * Norman: matenas
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: madrass
 * Ottoman Turkish: دوشك, شلته
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Madrauz
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sami:
 * Kildin Sami: пе̄ренҍ
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ду̀шек, ма̀драц
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:, matrazzu
 * Slovak: matrac
 * Slovene: vzmetnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kutson
 * Taos: pį̏ęʼéna
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཉལ་གདན
 * Tofa: төъһек
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: матра́ц
 * Urdu: توشَک, گَدّا
 * Urum: тӧшек
 * Uyghur: تەشتەك, ماتراس
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: matras, matrasau
 * West Coast Bajau: kasur
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: מאַטראַץ
 * Zhuang:


 * Dutch:

Verb

 * 1)  To cover with a thick layer, like a mattress; to blanket.