matra
See also: Matra and Mátra
matra - English
Noun
matra (plural matras)
- (music) In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
- In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
- The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
- An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.
Translations
- Hindi: मात्रा (hi) m (mātrā)
- Russian: ма́тра f (mátra)
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- Hindi: मात्रा (hi) m (mātrā)
- Russian: ма́тра f (mátra)
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matra - Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈmat̚ra]
- Hyphenation: mat‧ra
Noun
matra (first-person possessive matraku, second-person possessive matramu, third-person possessive matranya)
- dimension, measure of spatial extent.
- matra,
- (music) a measure of cadence pressure.
- (poetic) a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.