Madras

//məˈdɹæs//

Synonyms for "madras" (7 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (2)

Proper Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (2)

Related words (3)

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

4 entries

Synonyms

2 entries

Related terms

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derived

2 entries

etymologically related_to

1 entries

has context

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is a

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related to

7 entries

Translations

38 translations across 27 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • مَدْرَاس name (city)

Armenian

1 entries
  • Մադրաս name (city)

Bengali

1 entries
  • মাদ্রাজ name (city)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • Мадрас name (city)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 馬德拉斯 /马德拉斯 name (city)

Danish

1 entries
  • Madras name (city)

Dutch

1 entries
  • Madras name (city)

Finnish

3 entries
  • Madras name (city)
  • madras noun (fabric)
  • madraspuuvilla noun (fabric)

French

2 entries
  • Madras name (city)
  • madras noun (fabric)

German

1 entries
  • Madras name (city)

Hindi

2 entries
  • मदरास name (city)
  • मद्रास name (city)

Japanese

1 entries
  • マドラス name (city)

Kannada

1 entries
  • ಮದ್ರಾಸು name (city)

Korean

1 entries
  • 마드라스 name (city)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • മദ്രാസ് name (city)

Marathi

1 entries
  • मद्रास name (city)

Polish

1 entries
  • Madras name (city)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • Madras name (city)
  • Madrasta name (city)

Russian

1 entries
  • Мадра́с name (city)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • Màdras name (city)
  • Ма̀драс name (city)

Spanish

3 entries
  • Madras name (city)
  • Madrás name (city)
  • madrás noun (fabric)

Sundanese

2 entries
  • madras noun (fabric)
  • samping madras noun (fabric)

Swedish

1 entries
  • Madras name (city)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • Madras name (city)

Tamil

3 entries
  • மதறாஸ் name (city)
  • மதுராசு name (city)
  • மெட்ராஸ் name (city)

Telugu

1 entries
  • మద్రాసు name (city)

Urdu

1 entries
  • مدراس name (city)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He started getting serious about a career in mathematics during his undergraduate years at Madras University. It was in Calcutta, India, where he'd gone to get his PhD in applied statistics, that Varadhan says the urgings of his peers helped steer him from the applied side to the theoretical side of probability.

Source: tatoeba (12250709)

I’ll have the chicken Madras.

Source: wiktionary

A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow Madras turban […] crouched against the wall.

Source: wiktionary

The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company’s items—cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like—to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can’t make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.