matra

See also: Matra and Mátra

matra - English

Noun

matra (plural matras)

  1. (music) In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
  2. In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
  3. The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
  4. An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.

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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)

  1. dimension, measure of spatial extent.
  2. matra,
    1. (music) a measure of cadence pressure.
    2. (poetic) a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.

Derived terms

  • kematraan

matra - Maore Comorian

Noun

matra class 6

  1. oil
Meaning and Definition of matra
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