madras
French, noun/ma.dʁas/
madras is spelled M-A-D-R-A-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Madras is a French masculine noun meaning “madras” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étoffe dont la chaîne est de soie et la trame de coton, et qui est ainsi nommée parce qu’elle a été fabriquée…”.
What does madras mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemadras
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Étoffe dont la chaîne est de soie et la trame de coton, et qui est ainsi nommée parce qu’elle a été fabriquée d’abord à Madras, ville de l’Inde. 2. Coiffe traditionnelle des Antillaises faite d’un mouchoir de cette étoffe. 3. Coiffe traditionnelle des Bordelaises.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce madras?
- /ma.dʁas/
- /ma.dʁɑs/
- \ma.dʁɑs\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to madras
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is madras in French?
madras appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).