Borrowed from French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure", "rule", "length", "size", "poetic metre”).
మీటరు • (mīṭaru) ? (plural మీటళ్ళు)
- meter or metre: the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.