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 Devanagari

• Hindi: मात्रा (hi) m (mātrā)
• 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

Etymology

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

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.

Javanese

Romanization

matra

1. Romanization of ꦩꦠꦿ

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.