matra

See also: Matra and Mátra

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

• Sanskrit: मात्रा (sa) (mātrā)

poetic and linguistic term

• Sanskrit: मात्रा (sa) (mātrā)

horizontal line in many Indic scripts

• Bengali: মাত্রা (bn) (matra)
• Hindi: मात्रा (hi) m (mātrā), शिरोरेखा (hi) f (śirorekhā)
• Russian: ма́тра f (mátra)

vowel symbol

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

See also

• laya
• tala

Anagrams

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

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• matera

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦠꦿ (matra, “measure”), from Old Javanese mātra (“measure”), from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure”). Doublet of meter.

• Displaced Dutch dimensie (“dimension”) by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

matra (plural matra-matra)

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

Descendants

• → Malay: matra

Further reading

• “matra”, 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

Javanese

Romanization

matra

1. romanization of ꦩꦠꦿ

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian matra, from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure”). Doublet of meter.

• Displaced Dutch dimensie “dimension” in former Dutch colonies (Riouw and dependencies etc) as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944. Later absorbed into Malaysian dictionaries in 1970s

Noun

matra (plural matra-matra or matra²)

1. dimension, measure of spatial extent

   Synonym: dimensi

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

Further reading

• "matra" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

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.

Puyuma

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

Noun

matra

1. (anatomy) eye

References

• Josiane Cauquelin (2015), Nanwang Puyuma-English Dictionary (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 56), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, →ISBN, page 264