matra

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”).

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.

Translations

music term

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poetic and linguistic term

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horizontal line in Devanagari

• Hindi: मात्रा (hi) m (mātrā)
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• Russian: ма́тра f (mátra)

vowel symbol

• Hindi: मात्रा (hi) m (mātrā)
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• Russian: ма́тра f (mátra)

See also

• laya
• tala

Anagrams

• MARTA, Marta, Matar, Tamar, Tamra, trama

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmat̚ra]
• Hyphenation: mat‧ra

Noun

matra (first-person possessive matraku, second-person possessive matramu, third-person possessive matranya)

1. dimension, measure of spatial extent.

   Synonym: dimensi

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

 

Further reading

• “matra” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Maore Comorian

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màkútà, with an internal deletion of -fu-.

Noun

matra class 6

1. oil

References

• “matra” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.