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)‎, volumes 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 (Cyrillic spelling Ма̀драс)

  1. Madras (former name of 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
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