gatra

English

Noun

gatra (plural gatras)

1. (music) A unit of melody in Javanese gamelan music, analogous to a measure.

Anagrams

• atgar

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦠꦿ (gatra, “form; shape; clause”), from Old Javanese gātra (“appearance, shape, form, figure, lines; face; first lines, first colouring”, literally “body”), from Sanskrit गात्र (gātra, “body”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡatra/ [ˈɡat̪̚.ra]
• Rhymes: -atra
• Syllabification: gat‧ra

Noun

gatra (plural gatra-gatra)

1. (uncommon) manifestation (the embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing)

   Synonyms: manifestasi, perwujudan

2. aspect

   Synonym: aspek

   1. (linguistics) a grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding
   2. the way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective
3. (grammar) syntactic unit
4. (music) sentences or lines in traditional songs (tembang)
5. the shape of the keris detail that represents or is a style of a particular region or era

   Synonym: wanda

6. (music) the rhythm in karawitan which contains four beats

Derived terms

• menggatra

• gatra pangkal
• gatra sebutan

Further reading

• “gatra”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016