matra
Meanings
noun
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”).
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